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The Reproductive Health Act is a New York law enacted on January 22, 2019, that protects reproductive rights, decriminalized abortion, and eliminated several restrictions on voluntary abortions in the state. [1] The RHA repealed §4164 of the state Public Health Law. [2] The law has received national media attention. [3]
On April 10, 1970, the New York Senate passed a law legalizing abortion until the 24th week of pregnancy. [14] Republican Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller signed the bill into law the next day. [15] At the time, New York State was a Republican "trifecta", meaning both chambers of the legislature and the governorship were Republican-controlled. [14]
[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 ...
Citing free speech rights, a federal judge has temporarily blocked New York's attorney general from taking enforcement action against certain pregnancy counseling centers for promoting what ...
New York is suing an anti-abortion group and almost a dozen pregnancy counseling centers for promoting an unproven method to reverse medication abortions, Attorney General Letitia James announced ...
(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 ...
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In December 2024, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills to a Texan woman by mail. Paxton's suit asserts the doctor's action violates Texas' abortion laws, but New York is a state with shield laws. The lawsuit is anticipated to challenge the validity of shield laws in light of Dobbs. [260]