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For Immediate Release
Contact:
Shaun Marie
May 7,
2012
518-356-7882
www.cpnys.org
Conservative Party Urges
Legislators to Reject Expanding NY's Abortion
Laws
Brooklyn, NY - The NYS
Conservative Party is urging the Members of the
Legislature to reject the Reproductive Health
Act that ultimately eliminates any possible
restriction on abortion in New York State. The
following legislative memo was distributed to
the Members today:
2012 Legislative Memo in
Opposition to Reproductive Health Act
S 2844 - Stewart-Cousins/S 2524
Klein A 6112- Glick
Purpose:
This bill seeks to ensure that abortions are
legal throughout all nine months of pregnancy if
they are deemed necessary to protect the life or
health of the mother. Unfortunately, health has
been defined by Courts to mean social, economic
and emotional distress factors thereby allowing
an abortion until birth for any reason.
Party Position:
New York State already has the most permissive
abortion laws in the United States of America,
but this proposal seeks to expand the "right" to
an abortion to the moments just before the birth
of a precious child. Current NYS law allows an
abortion through 24 weeks; however, if the life
of the Mother is at risk, an exception could be
made to perform an abortion. Unfortunately,
because of flawed court decisions, (Roe v Wade),
this law is not enforceable, which makes
abortion through the third trimester for any
reason legal in New York.
This bill, however, would allow
post-viability abortions in a clinic on an
outpatient basis, clinics that are to all
intents and purposes unregulated by public
health authorities.
This bill also states, "the state
shall not discriminate" against the fundamental
right to abortion in the "provision of benefits,
facilities, services or information", thereby
requiring religious organizations to go against
their fundamental first amendment rights or
close down.
This bill may force successful
programs that favor childbirth over abortion to
close in order to prevent discrimination
lawsuits.
This bill also restricts any
reasonable regulations that have been allowed by
the US Supreme Court, for example, parental
notification, counseling prior to an abortion
and restricting taxpayer monies to be used. Many
of these reasonable regulations have been
adopted by more than 32 states.
Another egregious proposal in
this bill allows any health care practitioner to
perform abortions. This proposal endangers the
life of the mother and possibly the ability to
carry a child to full term in the future.
The bill also lifts the age
restrictions to purchase the "morning-after
pill" at neighborhood drug stores and would
allow girls as young as 11 to purchase the pill
without the knowledge of their parents.
The NYS Conservative Party is
strongly opposed to this bill that expands a
woman's ability to have an abortion. Modern
society has provided many ways to prevent
becoming pregnant; expanding abortion laws only
continues to denigrate precious life.
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