Sentences with phrase «codifying abortion rights»

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 agenda seeks to address women's health issues with the passage of the Comprehensive Contraceptive Coverage Act and codifying abortion rights into state law.

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.

With that history, it seems unlikely that Senate Republicans will rush to back items like a provision to codify the abortion rights in the federal Roe v Wade decision into law, or enact the Dream Act, which would give college aid to children of immigrants who are in the country illegally.

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.

Republicans, who rule the Senate with a group of break away Democrats, oppose public campaign finance, a provision in the Women's Equality act that codifies the abortion rights in Roe v Wade.

It would in part codify the abortion rights in the US Supreme Court Roe v Wade decision.

It includes a provision to codify the abortion rights in the federal Roe v Wade decision into New York law.

Cahill opposes a provision backed by many Democrats to codify the abortion rights in the US Supreme Court Roe v Wade into state law.

Cuomo's more than an hour long speech included numerous other initiatives, but he might have received the most applause when he announced a women's equality act, that, among other things would codify abortion rights in state statute.

Cahill opposes a provision backed by many Democrats to codify the abortion rights in the U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade ruling into state law.

The governor says there is not even consensus among women's groups on how a bill to codify the abortion rights in Roe v Wade should be structured.

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The illegality of abortion has been codified in some form since 1861, and in 1983 the Constitution of Ireland was explicitly amended by the public to guarantee the equal right to life of the mother and the unborn child.

Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, a Yonkers Democrat, said during a CapTon interview that Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has been outspoken in his support of abortion rights, should pressure the Senate Republicans to codify Roe v. Wade in state law by including the tenth plank of his erstwhile Women's Equality Act — the only plank the GOP - controlled Senate has refused to pass — in this year's budget.

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.

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.

His reelection campaign has mostly been conducted through the Women's Equality Party ballot line he's created for November, with his focus on codifying, and thereby protecting, the right to an abortion.

The Senate, which is currently controlled by Republicans and a group of breakaway Democrats, was responsible last year for blocking the final plank in the Women's Equality Act proposed by Mr. Cuomo, which would have codified in state law the right to abortion as established by Roe v. Wade.

Several Republican senators said they couldn't support a proposal to codify into New York state law the abortion rights afforded to women in the federal Roe v. Wade decision.

Schneiderman supports a woman's right to choose abortion and backs a proposal by Democrats to codify the rights in Roe v. Wade into state law.

Schneiderman supports a woman's s right to choose abortion, and backs a proposal by Democrats to codify the rights in Roe v Wade into state law.

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

Equal rights, protections against discrimination, environmental safeguards, campaign finance reform and laws codifying a woman's right to an abortion are other possible changes.

New Yorkers for Life, a group that opposes abortion, will hold a candlelight vigil Monday outside the state Capitol protesting a bill that would codify federal abortion rights in state law.

The interview comes after an uptick in the conservative press criticizing Cuomo's support for the Reproductive Health Act, which supporters say updates the state's abortion rights laws in order to codify the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.

«Nothing the governor will propose would expand access to abortion but rather only codify existing rights under federal law and court precedent in to state law.»

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for an amendment to the state constitution Monday that would codify a woman's right to have an abortion in New York.

He's against the Reproductive Health Act, backed by Democrats in the state legislature and Cuomo, which would codify into New York State law the abortion rights provisions in the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision.

He says many Republicans, and some Democrats, don't want to approve the tenth item, to codify in New York law the abortion rights in the federal Roe v Wade decision.

But the entire plan got stuck over the tenth provision, which would codify into New York State law the abortion rights defined in the 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v Wade decision.

The Women's Equality Act contains an abortion rights provision that would codify into New York state law the elements of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision.

The State Assembly, led by Democrats, passed all ten provisions, including the codifying of the abortion rights.

And the future of a bill to codify into state law the abortion rights spelled out in the federal Roe v Wade decision was in doubt.

But the entire plan got stuck over the tenth provision, which would codify into New York state law the abortion rights defined in the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision.

Speaking on the Brian Lehrer Show, Ms. Quinn strongly denied that the Women's Equality Party was about anything other than advancing the Women's Equality Agenda, a 10 - point plan that would codify a number of anti-discrimination statutes as well as the legal right to an abortion.

The agenda's «10th point,» which «codifies» New York law according to the federal Roe vs. Wade decision and expands abortion rights, has always fallen short in the GOP Senate.

A coalition of Republicans and a handful of breakaway Democrats have blocked votes on an abortion rights provision that would codify into state law the federal rights granted to New York women under the landmark Roe v Wade decision.

But neither Harary nor Malpass would endorse all 10 points of Cuomo's Women's Equality Agenda, the ostensible reason for the party's existence — an agenda that would codify the right to obtain an abortion, a host of anti-housing discrimination statutes and the right of attorneys to recover fees in employment, credit and lending cases.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in the fall of 2014 that any effort to pass paid leave would have to wait until the state had passed a suite of bills codifying a woman's right to secure an abortion into the state's health code, and later Cuomo said the Legislature, mired in ethics scandals, «lacked the appetite» to consider paid leave.