Pro-Abortion Pols Worried About Proposal One Pushback
Written by on October 8, 2024
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Pro-abortion elected officials from New York City have been making the rounds in the New York City suburbs to push for the passage of the so-called Equal Rights Amendment, also known as Proposal One. If approved by New York voters on Election Day, Proposal One would amend the State Constitution to ban discrimination based on “sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy.” This language is anti-life, anti-religious liberty, and pro-LGBT, and could open the door to disastrous court decisions that threaten faith-based organizations and parental rights.
New York Attorney General Letitia James attended two different pro-abortion rallies on the weekend of September 28-29. According to City & State New York, AG James “[made] the trek to suburbia to make sure [Proposal One], supposedly a shoo-in, doesn’t succumb to conservative messaging across the state.” The Attorney General was joined at one rally by State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) and at another by Rep. Pat Ryan (D-Kingston) and the head of Reproductive Freedom for All, formerly known as NARAL Pro-Choice America. In addition, State Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal (D-Manhattan) and Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine visited suburban Long Island to knock on doors and talk up Proposal One.
At one rally, Rep. Ryan reportedly claimed that “‘[abortion] rights are on the ballot this fall.’” Rep. Ryan’s claim is misleading. Abortion has been legal in New York since 1970. In 2019, despite passionate and principled opposition from New York Families, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an abortion expansion law known as the Reproductive Health Act (RHA); the RHA took abortion-related crimes off the books, clarified that late-term abortions were legal under a broad women’s health exception, and empowered some non-physicians to perform abortions. While Proposal One could do damage to the pro-life cause, abortion-on-demand will (unfortunately) remain available in New York whether or not Proposal One is approved.
As City & State noted, “the push for the Equal Rights Amendment remains intertwined with Democrats’ fight to pick up House seats in the suburbs while defending those they currently have.” This assertion is accurate. To be frank, New York Democrats are engaging in fear-mongering to generate voter turnout for their party’s candidates. If Democrats like Rep. Ryan can trick pro-abortion New Yorkers into believing that Proposal One must be approved to ensure continued abortion access, those New Yorkers will turn out on Election Day to vote for Proposal One and will likely vote for Rep. Ryan and his Democratic congressional colleagues at the same time.
City & State’s report contains good news for New York Christians and other conservatives. If influential pro-abortion pols are spending their weekends pushing Proposal One, they must be more than a little bit worried that it might be defeated. Believers should be encouraged, and should keep informing our friends and neighbors about the dangers of Proposal One.
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