Statement By Assemblymember Tom Abinanti: Reproductive Healthcare is a Human Right.
New York Must Be a Sanctuary State for Women and Providers.
News reports indicate that the United States Supreme Court is poised to overrule its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade. While the rest of the civilized world is recognizing that reproductive freedom is a human right, the American reactionaries want to bring the United States back to the dark ages.
New York must be a Sanctuary State for women and providers – amend the New York constitution to protect the right to bodily autonomy, strengthen New York’s protections for access to reproductive health facilities and enact a law to resist enforcement in New York of out-of-state abortion-related “convictions” and civil judgements.
As a former pro-bono attorney for the Westchester Coalition for Legal Abortion, I developed a special understanding of the challenges that women face in seeking reproductive healthcare. I was pleased to co-sponsor and vote for New York’s Reproductive Health Act (Chapter 1 of the Laws of 2019) that enacted the Roe v. Wade protections into New York law.
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