Pro-abortion Gov. Cuomo and enshrining third-trimester abortions in New York State
By Dave Andrusko
Move over pro-abortionists Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden,
pro-abortion New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to be President. Not
exactly breaking news, but important to keep in mind as Cuomo draws
closer to actually specifying what his 10-point “Women’s Equality Act”
will include.
One component we do know will be a part of the Act: the Reproductive Health Act. How? Because (as one New Yorker put it) “eyes bulging,” Cuomo shouted his support for the RHA in January’s State of the State Speech.
We also know that the RHA would enshrine third-trimester abortion in New York law, which (in light of the murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell) makes the stomach of even the staunchest pro-abortionist queasy.
What else do we know? That (like all experienced pro-abortion politicians) Cuomo insists he would be breaking no new ground—he would be just “codifying Roe,” in case the Supreme Court overturns Roe. This is so preposterously misleading you wonder how he looks at himself in the mirror.
The RHA is a frontal assault on conscience rights, the taxpayer’s pocketbook, the unborn child who survives an abortion or is killed when his or her mother is attacked, and opens the door to an even greater expansion of abortion by widening the categories of people who can perform abortion.
A while back State Sen. Dean Skelos, the Republican leader in the state Senate, told the Associated Press, “I don’t understand what the issue is,” adding “In New York state, you have Medicaid spending on abortion, there is no parental consent, there is no parental notification, you can pretty much have an abortion any time you want … I think it’s really a non-issue.”
On Tuesday Skelos went further, saying he would block Cuomo’s abortion agenda. “Expansion of late-term abortion is extreme, in my opinion,” Skelos said. “It’s not progressive, it’s extreme.”
However without getting into the very convoluted politics of New York State, suffice it say stopping the bill could still be very, very difficult. The state Assembly is in the hands of Democrats who will vote for whatever abortion legislation Cuomo proposes, but the Senate has a complicated power sharing arrangement.
Pro-lifers in New York know that the vote of every single state Senator is crucial. When they understand that the RHA is a recipe for aborting viable unborn babies on a large scale, even those senators who ordinarily vote “pro-choice” blanche.
And it’s not just the size and age and development of the babies. New York is awash in dead babies.
But if you were the proverbial man from Mars, you’d think from Cuomo’s stemwinder of a State of the State speech that “abortion rights” are in deep peril. In truth this in a state where abortion’s roots have sunk so deep they are approaching the center of the earth.
New York City had 87,273 abortions in 2009, “meaning that 41 percent of all pregnancies that didn’t end in miscarriage were ended by abortions,” as New York Post columnist Seth Lipsky explained in January. “In some ZIP codes and among African-Americans, the abortion rate reaches a ghastly 60 percent.”
The state already IS extreme on abortion. Cuomo’s proposal would only make a ghastly situation even worse.
Source: NRLC News
Pro-abortion New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo
One component we do know will be a part of the Act: the Reproductive Health Act. How? Because (as one New Yorker put it) “eyes bulging,” Cuomo shouted his support for the RHA in January’s State of the State Speech.
We also know that the RHA would enshrine third-trimester abortion in New York law, which (in light of the murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell) makes the stomach of even the staunchest pro-abortionist queasy.
What else do we know? That (like all experienced pro-abortion politicians) Cuomo insists he would be breaking no new ground—he would be just “codifying Roe,” in case the Supreme Court overturns Roe. This is so preposterously misleading you wonder how he looks at himself in the mirror.
The RHA is a frontal assault on conscience rights, the taxpayer’s pocketbook, the unborn child who survives an abortion or is killed when his or her mother is attacked, and opens the door to an even greater expansion of abortion by widening the categories of people who can perform abortion.
A while back State Sen. Dean Skelos, the Republican leader in the state Senate, told the Associated Press, “I don’t understand what the issue is,” adding “In New York state, you have Medicaid spending on abortion, there is no parental consent, there is no parental notification, you can pretty much have an abortion any time you want … I think it’s really a non-issue.”
On Tuesday Skelos went further, saying he would block Cuomo’s abortion agenda. “Expansion of late-term abortion is extreme, in my opinion,” Skelos said. “It’s not progressive, it’s extreme.”
However without getting into the very convoluted politics of New York State, suffice it say stopping the bill could still be very, very difficult. The state Assembly is in the hands of Democrats who will vote for whatever abortion legislation Cuomo proposes, but the Senate has a complicated power sharing arrangement.
Pro-lifers in New York know that the vote of every single state Senator is crucial. When they understand that the RHA is a recipe for aborting viable unborn babies on a large scale, even those senators who ordinarily vote “pro-choice” blanche.
And it’s not just the size and age and development of the babies. New York is awash in dead babies.
But if you were the proverbial man from Mars, you’d think from Cuomo’s stemwinder of a State of the State speech that “abortion rights” are in deep peril. In truth this in a state where abortion’s roots have sunk so deep they are approaching the center of the earth.
New York City had 87,273 abortions in 2009, “meaning that 41 percent of all pregnancies that didn’t end in miscarriage were ended by abortions,” as New York Post columnist Seth Lipsky explained in January. “In some ZIP codes and among African-Americans, the abortion rate reaches a ghastly 60 percent.”
The state already IS extreme on abortion. Cuomo’s proposal would only make a ghastly situation even worse.
Source: NRLC News
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