America’s culture wars never end, and one of the fiercest conflicts has been over a woman’s right to safe, legal abortion. Right now, that division is having an impact in the City of Batavia,
Reproductive Health Act
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Cuomo budget calls for legal pot, tackles taxes and health care
Governor Andrew Cuomo has taken a very direct step toward legalizing recreational cannabis use in New York: He’s included a plan to do it in his budget proposal. Cuomo just wrapped up his annual State of the State and budget addresses to lawmakers, and legal cannabis was just one of a long list of policy […]
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Cuomo, Legislature to pursue reproductive rights protections
The Reproductive Health Act has passed the state Assembly six times and this year, the state Senate will finally vote on it. Democratic leaders in both the Assembly and Senate expect it to pass, and Governor Andrew Cuomo has promised to swiftly sign it into law. The Reproductive Health Act will essentially modernize that state’s […]
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Advocates, lawmakers push for abortion law vote
Abortion has been legal in New York since 1970, three years before the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide through its decision in Roe v. Wade. But when New York liberalized its abortion laws, it kept them in the state’s penal code. Women are allowed to get abortions, and physicians are allowed to perform them, but […]
