Sentences with phrase «abortion rights measures»

That means many of the same issues that were gridlocked in the legislature in the past are likely to remain so, including, the Dream Act, which would provide college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, abortion rights measures, and ending the incarceration of 16 and 17 year olds in adult prisons.

That means many of the same issues that were gridlocked in the legislature in the past are likely to remain so, including the Dream Act, which would provide college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, abortion rights measures, and ending the incarceration of 16 - and 17 - year - olds in adult prisons.

Republican senators, some of whom support abortion rights, have said in the past that there's no need to approve abortion rights measures because Roe v. Wade was not in jeopardy.

Tracey Brooks, president of Family Planning Advocates of New York State, says women's groups are asking Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos to bring the abortion rights measure to the floor as a stand alone bill.

Lieutenant Governor Hochul says she knows of some GOP Senators, who she would not name, who are «supportive» of voting for the abortion rights measure and she says she's hopeful that election year pressures could encourage them to join Democrats to provide enough votes for passage.

But it is expected to include an abortion rights measure.

But in the course of standard endorsements, Cuomo called the Senate's four - member Democratic «co-conspirators» with Republicans in keeping an abortion rights measure from coming to a vote, which in turn prompted a rebuke from the Senate G.O.P.

Hochul said she knows of some GOP Senators, who she would not name, who are «supportive» of voting for the abortion rights measure, and she said she's hopeful that election year pressures could encourage them to join Democrats to provide enough votes for passage.

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As an atheist who believes in «Choice» (I dislike the idea of abortion but see the need for people to be able to opt for it) and polygamy (marriage should be for any number of consenting adults regardless of gender) and believes that the idea of draconian anti-gun measures is anathema as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a person treat other people nicer then we should leave that person and his beliefs alone.

The right to abortion, along with all birth - control measures, must establish the Century of the Wanted Child.

If we measure left and right by support for or opposition to abortion and Bill Clinton, which is a reasonable measure in this case, twelve of the groups represented are very far left indeed — including Catholics for a Free Choice, Human Rights Campaign (a leading gay rights organization), People for the American Way, AIDS National Interfaith Network, and Religious Coalition for Reproductive CRights Campaign (a leading gay rights organization), People for the American Way, AIDS National Interfaith Network, and Religious Coalition for Reproductive Crights organization), People for the American Way, AIDS National Interfaith Network, and Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.

A measure that supporters say would codify Roe v. Wade in state law has also failed to gain a vote as opponents contend it is an unnecessary expansion of abortion rights.

Supporters of abortion and reproductive rights expect to renew an effort to approved measures like the Reproductive Health Act and expand access to contraceptives as Donald Trump's presidency looms next year.

The push would reignite a heated debate over the RHA, a measure that is aimed at the codification of Roe v. Wade in state law and is deeply opposed by opponents of abortion, who have argued it's a needless expansion of existing rights in New York.

The GOP has blocked passage of bills including the Dream Act, to help children of undocumented immigrants get college aid, a measure to codify the abortion rights in Roe v. Wade into state law, and campaign finance reform.

Reproductive rights groups call that analysis a gross mischaracterization of what the legislation would do, and insist the measure would do nothing more than codify current abortion protections in state law.

In June, as a Cuomo - backed abortion - rights measure failed to come to a floor vote (and granted, it is doubtful that it had the votes to pass) and legislators adjourned without acting on any of the governor's public corruption bills, he refused, even when prompted, to single out the IDC.

Cuomo has this year once again pushed a package of measures aimed at women's rights, including strengthening the state's abortion laws and combating sexual harassment in the workplace.

But the omnibus version of the bill has stalled in the state Senate over the last two years with mostly Republicans opposing a measure aimed at strengthening abortion rights.

Nearly the entire package of measures — which focused on pay equity and curtailing human trafficking — has become law, save for a controversial measure aimed at strengthening abortion rights.

Advocates for public financing of campaigns and advocates of abortion rights are entering the final push for passage of the measures, and are using a variety of tactics to spur action in the state Senate.

Cuomo, in exchange for an endorsement from the left leaning Working Families Party, promised to help reunite the two Democratic factions in order to achieve passage of several progressive issues, including public campaign financing, a women's equality act with an abortion rights provision, and a measure to give college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, known as the Dream Act.

Dede Scozzafava, an assemblywoman who now works for Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was the endorsed Republican candidate, but was rejected by many national Republican groups for her positions in favor of the Employee Free Choice Act, a union - favored measure known as «card check,» and for abortion rights.

State Republicans opposed the series of 10 bills in large part because one of the measure's provisions would have strengthened abortion rights language in state law.

The abortion measure would codify into state law the rights in the U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision.

Still, that's a narrow working majority of one seat, making it difficult for Democrats to pass some of the more controversial measures on their to - do list, such as strengthening abortion rights.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo's package of measures aimed at women is expected to become a campaign issue, the abortion - rights group Planned Parenthood Advocates of New York on Monday formed a political action conference to raise reproductive rights issues.

Nevertheless, Klein has come under criticism from liberals and other advocacy organizations for the Senate's failure to pass measures aimed at strengthening abortion rights, the DREAM Act and the full public financing of political campaigns.

Cuomo formed the ballot line last year as a way of gaining support from women voters and drawing attention to a 10 - point package of measures aimed at pay equity, human trafficking and strengthening abortion rights.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said that while a unified Democratic conference may be short at least two votes to pass abortion rights legislation, it would at least be able to bring the measure to the floor, which would put pressure on pro-choice Republicans to help pass it.

Backed by a large number of his conference and advocates, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie warned of «a slow and steady erosion» of reproductive rights hours before the Democrat - dominated chamber passed two measures designed to protect abortion availability and enhance access to contraception.

And she repeatedly noted that Republicans only hold a one - seat majority in the Senate, adding there are no plans to drop an emphasis on key issues for Democrats such as a minimum wage increase, strengthening abortion rights and the Dream Act — even if the votes just aren't there for those measures.

The abortion provision has proposed by Cuomo was part of a larger 10 - point women's agenda the governor pushed in 2014, only to have the various planks broken up from the omnibus bill and approved in piecemeal fashion, save for the measure to bolster reproductive rights.

The governor says Republicans, who co-lead the state Senate, continue to oppose a measure to clarify a women's right to choose abortion.

The A.F.L. - C.I.O., the Conservative Party, the Sierra Club, the National Abortion Rights Action League, legislators of both parties and Change New York, the anti-tax group, were united against the measure,» wrote Richard Perez - Pena, for the New York Times, on November 5, 1997, just before the con con vote that year.

Governor Cuomo's Women's Equality Act saw some successes in the legislature in 2015, after the most controversial of the measures, an abortion rights provision, was separated out from the rest of the items.

Republican senators are steadfast in their opposition to one of the measures in the 10 - point Women's Equality Agenda: codifying abortion rights in Roe versus Wade.

The GOP has blocked passage of bills including the Dream Act, to help children of undocumented immigrants get college aid, a measure to codify the abortion rights in Roe v. Wade into state law, as well as campaign finance reform.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's Women's Equality Act saw some successes in the legislature in 2015, after the most controversial of the measures, an abortion rights provision, were separated out from the rest of the items.

Whether he can see his social measures approved — most notably a provision aimed at strengthening abortion rights — will be tested.

Scozzafava, according to news reports, supports abortion rights, gay marriage, card check, President Obama's fiscally ruinous bailouts, stimulus spending and a host of other measures which, while she has every right to support them, in no way endear her to mainstream Republicans.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Women's Equality Act saw some successes in the legislature in 2015, after the most controversial of the measures — an abortion rights provision — was separated out from the rest of the items.

That led Senator John Bonacic, of the Hudson Valley to accuse the Democrats, and their leader Speaker Sheldon Silver, of holding the other measures hostage to the abortion rights provision.

Backed by a large number of his Democratic conference and advocates, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Tuesday afternoon warned of «a slow and steady erosion» of reproductive rights hours before the Democrat - dominated chamber passed two measures designed to protect abortion availability and enhance access to contraception.

But a bill on abortion rights was struggling, and reform measures appear dead for the session.

In the first months of his second term, Cuomo separated the abortion rights proposal from the rest of the measures, letting each bill stand on it's own.

What changed this year is that the original package, which contained an abortion rights provision, was broken up into ten separate measures.

Last year, Senate Republicans, who share control of that chamber, had agreed to pass all but the 10th measure, which would have further protected the right to late - term abortions.

Skelos did not elaborate on what those controversial measures are, but he was likely referring to a slate of proposals — public campaign finance, a measure to open state tuition assistance programs to undocumented immigrants, tweaks to the minimum wage and the creation of an affirmative legal right to an abortion — that Cuomo himself has been supporting.

But it's provision number 10 in the 10 point plan that's garnered most of the attention - a measure to write into New York State law the abortion rights protections spelled out in the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v Wade.