{"id":1536526,"date":"2022-07-02T10:34:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T14:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1536526"},"modified":"2022-07-02T10:34:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T14:34:28","slug":"new-york-moves-to-bolster-abortion-access-strengthen-affirmative-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-moves-to-bolster-abortion-access-strengthen-affirmative-action\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Moves to Bolster Abortion Access, Strengthen \u2018Affirmative Action\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-moves-to-bolster-abortion-access-strengthen-affirmative-action%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1536526&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nyc\">New York<\/a> State legislature has passed an \u201cequal rights\u201d amendment to the state Constitution that would bolster protections for \u201caffirmative action\u201d programs and strengthen a woman\u2019s right to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-abortion\">abortion<\/a> by treating denial of the procedure as an act of discrimination based on sex.<\/p>\n<p>The Equal Rights Amendment (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/bills\/2021\/S8797\">S.8797B<\/a>), which passed the state legislature on July 1,\u00a0seeks to modify the New York State Constitution by adding a new section that expands the list of classes protected against discrimination and stipulating that one of these classes includes the right to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis amendment clarifies that any state action that discriminates against a person based on a pregnancy outcome is a sex-based classification,\u201d\u00a0states the preamble to the amendment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State shall not use its police power or power of the purse to burden, limit, or favor any type of reproductive decision making,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n<p> \u2018Codifying the Right to an Abortion\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Currently, Section 11 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/constitution\/new-york\/article-i\/\">Bill of Rights<\/a> of the New York State Constitution contains a provision that\u00a0tracks the wording of the federal equal protection clause and prohibits\u00a0discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed, or religion.<\/p>\n<p>The new amendment goes beyond that, introducing additional protected classes by also barring discrimination based on ethnicity, national origin, disability, and sex including pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.<\/p>\n<p>The preamble makes clear that\u00a0it considers discrimination based on pregnancy\u2014including abortion\u2014a type of discrimination based on sex and that it seeks to strengthen abortion access by treating \u201cthe failure to provide reasonable accommodations\u201d to those seeking to terminate an unwanted pregnancy as an act of discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Before it becomes law, the amendment still needs to pass again in the next legislative session before being put to a referendum for final approval.<\/p>\n<p>New York Gov. Kathy Hochul hailed the passage of the amendment,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York State legislature has passed an \u201cequal rights\u201d amendment to the state Constitution that would bolster protections for \u201caffirmative action\u201d programs and strengthen a woman\u2019s right to abortion by treating denial of the procedure as an act of discrimination based on sex. 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