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[23] [19] [13] According to Cornell University constitutional law professor Michael C. Dorf, the amendment would protect the right to abortion in the state of New York by ensuring that prohibiting abortion would be an unconstitutional form of health-care discrimination because they would be "singling out one form of reproductive health care ...
New York was the second state, after Hawaii, to enact landmark abortion law legislation. [17] Unlike Hawaii, however, New York's abortion law did not have a 90-day residency requirement. Between 1970 and 1973, the New York General Assembly attempted to repeal their law that made abortion legal.
Abortion was also included as part of the penal law under homicide, and could be charged as a criminal offense prior to the RHA. [2] [non-primary source needed] The Reproductive Health Act and similar bills were proposed in the New York State Legislature beginning in 2007, [6] [7] [8] but such legislation was blocked by Senate Republicans for ...
Doctors in New York who prescribe abortion pills to patients in states where the procedure is illegal would be provided with legal protection under a bill approved by state lawmakers. The measure ...
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. (Docket 18-483) was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the constitutionality of a 2016 anti-abortion law passed in the state of Indiana. Indiana's law sought to ban abortions performed solely on the basis of the fetus' gender, race, ethnicity, or disabilities.
(Reuters) -New York state's top prosecutor on Monday sued Heartbeat International, an anti-abortion group, and 11 crisis pregnancy centers, accusing them of misleading and potentially endangering ...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill to shield the identities of doctors who prescribe abortion drugs to patients out of state after a New York doctor was charged in Louisiana.
In 2019, New York codified abortions rights and reproductive freedoms in state law. New York state Senator Alessandra Biaggi has proposed a bill that allows the option for taxpayers in New York to contribute to the abortion access fund on their tax forms. This essentially helps create more access to abortion in the state.