Sentences with phrase «abortion plank»

Cuomo also used the act as a justification last year for his creation of the Women's Equality Party, a new political entity he said could convince recalcitrant Republican lawmakers to enact the controversial abortion plank of the equality agenda, if only the party received enough votes on its line.

As Nick noted earlier this week, these claims aren't entirely accurate, since the Senate GOP has passed nine of the 10 WEA provisions, refusing only to put the controversial abortion plank onto the floor for a vote — either as a stand - alone bill or as part of the act as a whole.

Koppell had been pushing for a more progressive agenda including a higher minimum wage and public financing of campaigns, passage of the Dream Act, which would allow students in the country illegally access to state financial aid, along with all 10 points of the Women's Equality Agenda, which includes a contentious abortion plank.

Chiaroscuro, which said it had begun airing the ads around Tkaczyk's sprawling district Monday, has been a leading voice in opposition to the state Reproductive Health Act and the similar abortion plank of the WEA, claiming it would vastly expand late - term abortions.

She still hopes the Senate will bring the full 10 - point WEA to the floor or vote on the solo abortion plank.

Speaking at Thursday's SUNY board meeting, Cuomo referenced his past efforts to advance women's rights in New York: the Women's Equality Act, a 10 - point bill that has failed to pass the Legislature for two sessions because of a controversial abortion plank.

Legislatively, the difference between this agenda and gun control is that he did not act quickly on this, giving both women's rights advocates and those opposed to the agenda (the abortion plank in particular) a chance to mobilize.

One day later, however, the Women's Equality Coalition released a statement saying they'd hope to at least get 9 of 10, without the abortion plank.

Further complicating matters is the possibility of a Republican - controlled state Senate, which had opposed an abortion plank in the 10 - point Women's Equality Agenda, an omnibus bill that also included measures such as pay equity and cracking down on human trafficking.

The abortion plank in the WEA, originally proposed in 2013 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has resulted in a standoff between the two legislative chambers: The Senate GOP refuses to vote on any legislation that includes it, while the Democrat - controlled Assembly won't vote on any stand - alone WEA bills.

In a recent op - ed piece that ran in the Times Union, Tkaczyk defended the inclusion of the abortion plank in the WEA.

In a statement, Zephyr Teachout, who is running against Cuomo in a Democratic primary, faulted the governor for working with Senate Republicans, who have refused to hold a vote on the abortion plank, which none of their members publicly support, but twice passed the nine other women's equality items as separate bills.

While the Democratic - led Assembly has passed the legislation — which covers topics like pay equity, pregnancy discrimination and human trafficking — as an omnibus bill, Republicans in the Senate have been opposed to an abortion plank, which seeks to align state abortion law with federal law, setting up a continuing stalemate between both houses.

Yet, when Cuomo introduced the Women's Equality Act to the New York State Assembly in 2013, it failed to pass because of a controversial «abortion plank,» which essentially codified Roe v. Wade into New York state law and ensured that women could get an abortion within 24 weeks of conception, according to the New York Women's Equality Coalition.

Mindful of the fact that the conservative grassroots is still smarting from the same - sex marriage vote two years ago, and steaming over the SAFE Act passage, the Senate Republicans drew a line in the sand over the abortion plank of the governor's Women's Equality Agenda and also refused to budget on campaign finance reform.

But Republicans in the Senate — who have held votes on separate items in the agenda — remain opposed to the abortion plank in the omnibus version of the legislation.

Senate Republicans, who had opposed the abortion plank of the women's agenda, argued in a letter to Horwitz that it was unfair to grant the exemption just to NARAL.

Grisanti backs that measure, but is opposed to an abortion plank in the package which is aimed at codifying Roe v. Wade in state law.

Senate Republicans had passed the bills in a piecemeal fashion and would not consider a vote on the abortion plank.

Funke responded that he believes the abortion plank is more of an expansion than a simple codification.

A lot of the mail from the Democratic side focuses on Tkaczyk's support for the full women's agenda and bashes Amedore for not backing the full 10 - point plan (He opposes the abortion plank that would codify Roe v. Wade in state law).

Opponents of the abortion plank say it's an unnecessary expansion of existing abortion laws — a contention advocates who support the measure strongly dispute.

More pressingly, Grisanti opposes the abortion plank of the women's agenda, a provision that's aimed at codifying Roe v. Wade in state law.

In an interview on The Capitol Pressroom, Grisanti said he had not spoken to Cuomo personally about an endorsement while reiterating his opposition to the abortion plank of the WEA.

Without a majority in the state senate, progressive legislation will have fewer opportunities to make it to the governor's desk, including bills like the DREAM Act, which would provide tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants and the abortion plank to the Women's Equality Agenda.

Senate Republicans are seemingly unwilling to address most of the progressive issues touted by Cuomo's left - leaning constituents, such as campaign finance reform, a further minimum wage increase and control by localities, and the abortion plank of the Women's Equality Agenda.

The plan also created tension among some women's rights groups that didn't want other pieces of legislation to be held hostage because of the abortion plank.

De Blasio was preaching to the choir with the IDC, which is aligning itself with de Blasio following a falling out for the breakaway conference with Cuomo (the governor referred to the IDC as the «co-conspirators» with the Senate Republicans following the failure of the abortion plank in his women's agenda).

Cuomo pushed hard for the entirety of the package, but in June of that year broke the measures up into 10 separate pieces of legislation, with Republicans in the Senate approving nine of them, save for the abortion plank.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Monday shrugged off the vote in the state Senate on eight of the 10 measures in the women's agenda, saying that without a vote on the abortion plank, the competing bills won't match.

It's worth noting that as Cuomo campaigns on the passage of the full women's agenda, the governor in 2013 broke the package of bills up into 10 different pieces of legislation as Senate Republicans balked at the abortion plank.

The bills are passing with votes from Senate Democrats, even as the minority conference's condemns the lack of action on the abortion plank.

Senate Republicans on Thursday blasted Assembly Democrats for failing to take action on any of the nine non-controversial elements of the Women's Equality Agenda, which was rolled out last year by Gov. Andrew Cuomo but remains stymied by a debate over a controversial abortion plank.

Sen. Greg Ball, R - Putnam County, blamed «an extreme leftist movement» for insisting on the abortion plank, which Republicans view as an expansion of existing abortion rights.

The current impasse on the women's agenda is the result of a last - minute change in strategy by the governor and the coalition just days before the end of session, when it became apparent that Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos wasn't going to allow the abortion plank onto the floor — and that there weren't 32 declared votes in the chamber to support that section.

That means Senate Republicans as well as Independent Democratic leader Jeff Klein, who on the last day of session opted for trying to force the abortion plank into another bill as a hostile amendment.

ALBANY — A powerful assemblywoman is breaking away two women's rights measures from a 10 - point women's agenda that has stalled for a second year over conflict about its abortion plank.

He noted that his June 2013 effort to bring the abortion plank of Cuomo's Women's Equality Act up for a full vote failed to attract the ayes of all Democrats.

That legislation, and the Republicans» failure to pass it, played a pivotal role in Cuomo's re-election campaign last year, as he used G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino's opposition to the abortion plank as a way to highlight his own support for women's rights.

When the bills were divided up in 2015, all but the abortion plank were passed into law.

But after Democrats failed to retake the State Senate last year, and after the 2014 election season was over, with Cuomo victorious, the governor and his lieutenant governor Kathy Hochul both declared the abortion plank of the act officially dormant, if not dead.

But the GOP refused to adopt it as one package because it included the abortion plank.