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Anonymous ID: b16eeb Jan. 23, 2019, 4:21 a.m. No.4872481   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2493 >>2520 >>2575 >>2727 >>2759 >>2787 >>2869

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not sure what the point was here, but Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb says otherwise.

 

https:// mailchi.mp/9ed2bf188794/statement-from-assembly-minority-leader-brian-m-kolb?e=052a826290

 

For Release: IMMEDIATELY, January 22, 2019

Contact: Mike Fraser, office: (518) 455-3751/cell: (518) 859-8518

 

STATEMENT FROM ASSEMBLY MINORITY LEADER

BRIAN M. KOLB (R,C-CANANDAIGUA)

 

“Abortion has been legal in New York State since 1970, even when it was illegal at the federal level. Today’s passage of the Reproductive Health Act came under the false narratives that the legality of women’s rights are being jeopardized, and this was a necessary legal step to simply formalize Roe v. Wade in state law.

 

In reality, this bill goes beyond anything we have seen before. The legislation passed today:

expands abortion into the third trimester, allowing for a pregnancy to be terminated up until the moment of birth;

 

takes away important protections for pregnant women who suffer violent attacks that injure or kill their unborn child; and

 

threatens the health and safety of women by allowing abortions to be performed by individuals who are not physicians.

New York is home to the highest abortion rates in the nation and some of the least-restrictive abortion laws. Access and opportunity have been here for decades. Today’s effort represents an extreme step down a very troubling road.”

 

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Anonymous ID: b16eeb Jan. 23, 2019, 4:23 a.m. No.4872493   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2518 >>2520 >>2787 >>2869

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Senate GOP introduces “Liv Act” in response to RHA

 

Sen. Catharine Young, R-Olean, introduced the “Liv Act” on Tuesday to address what she described as a flaw in the Reproductive Health Act, arguing that the legislation fails to protect pregnant victims of domestic violence.

 

The Reproductive Health Act, which is poised to pass the Legislature on Tuesday, strikes abortion from New York’s penal code, a move intended to protect doctors and women who self abort from criminal prosecution.

 

Senate Republicans, who lost their majority in November’s election and have long stalled the bill, saying their opposition is rooted in the fact that victims of domestic violence could go unprotected.

 

Liv Abreu, an army veteran from the Bronx, was stabbed by her ex-boyfriend when she was 26 weeks pregnant, resulting in the loss of her unborn child.

 

Abreu joined Republican senators at a press conference at the Capitol on Tuesday to advocate for the law which would enable perpetrators of such violence to be charged with “abortion” in addition to other criminal offenses like “assault” or “attempted murder.”

 

“Liv’s Attacker snatched from her a time of joy and for that, he should pay the full price,” Young told reporters.

Democrats note that other charges carry higher penalties than the abortion charge, and that Abreu’s attacker was also charged with felony assault and attempted murder.

 

“All of these crimes carry much much stricter penalties and length of time in jail than the crime of abortion,” said Sen. Liz Krueger, D-Manhattan, the Senate sponsor for the RHA. “You have to ask the question, why would anybody use the abortion code to charge someone with a heinous crime when we in the state of New York have very strict rules in the criminal code to deal with these kind of criminals?”

 

https:// blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/285668/senate-gop-introduces-liv-act-in-response-to-rha/