Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
[26] [22] [3] 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, and ...
The passage of Prop. 1 does not change current abortion law in the state, but it will protect against any future Republican attacks against the procedure, including attempts to pass waiting ...
The state will maintain current abortion access and enshrine it in New York's state constitution by way of an equal rights amendment that was passed this week (aka Proposition 1). Though it doesn ...
What was on the ballot: New York's Equal Protection of Law Amendment, or Proposal 1, would amend the New York Bill of Rights to dictate that no person's rights can be denied on a variety of ...
Citizen-initiated amendment: Proposition 140, would require ranked-choice voting to be used in general elections, and, contradicting Proposition 133, create nonpartisan blanket primaries. [ 54 ] Legislatively-referred statute : Proposition 311 , establishes a $20 fee on every conviction for a criminal offense, which would go to a $250,000 ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (PIX11) – An amendment to the New York State Constitution that protects abortion rights passed on Tuesday. Proposition 1, also known as the Equal Rights Amendment, adds protections for ...
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 [1] The RHA repealed §4164 of the state Public Health Law.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]