For the past two years, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 10-point Women’s Equality Agenda has existed in a sort of suspended animation. Senate Republicans would only pass nine of the 10 points, since the last one would have put the abortion rights guaranteed in Roe v. Wade into state law. And Assembly Democrats insisted on passing all […]
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Feedback 10/9
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Women’s Equality Act protects abortion rights, doesn’t expand them
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed Women’s Equality Act has come under fire because of its language about abortion. Right now, abortion is regulated through the state’s penal law. Cuomo says his legislation would simply write into law the rights guaranteed under the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision and remove regulation of abortions from the penal […]
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Cuomo prepping abortion rights legislation
Abortion rights opponents are pressuring Governor Andrew Cuomo to publicly release an abortion rights bill he plans to propose, says an article from Gannett’s Albany bureau. That is, if he has a bill, they stipulate. During his State of the State Address last month, Cuomo called on the legislature to pass a Women’s Equality Act. […]
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Cuomo’s high-energy, jam-packed State of the State speech
Governor Andrew Cuomo does not lack ideas for New York State. In fact, he’s got a 300-plus page book full of them. During his State of the State address this afternoon, Cuomo laid out his agenda for the next year. He listed off new initiatives for economic development, incentives for state school districts to extend […]
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The attack on Roe
“Why aren’t you writing about the Patriot Act?” a reader asked recently. We could fill this newspaper every week with worries and protests about the Patriot Act… and the environment… and Iraq… and now Iran…. (I learned long ago to watch for the little hints that Bush-Cheney and company toss out in their speeches. Was […]
