Andrew Cuomo and the Last Thing New York Needs

 

“Not all women in New York State are applauding Governor Cuomo’s so-called women’s equality agenda. It’s a sham,” says Kathy Gallagher, pro-life director at theNew York State Catholic Conference.

His presentation during his state of the state address last week was very much in keeping with abortion-expansion activists’ “a-word” avoidance. “It’s shameful, really, especially the way the governor delivered the message, with a video clip of newborns in a nursery, highlighting the disparity between the boy baby and the girl baby when they grow up,” Gallagher says. “He never spoke about the baby who never had a chance to grow up. It’s offensive to us women who know what his abortion expansion bill really does. It opens up late-term abortions for any and all reasons, allows non-physicians to perform abortions, threatens the religious liberty of Catholic hospitals and other institutions, makes abortion immune to any reasonable regulation, such as parental notification or taxpayer limits.” He doesn’t lead with these things, of course, and throws opposition to domestic violence, sexual harassment, and sex trafficking into the mix in order to make it appear conventionally un-opposable.

Cuomo’s reintroduction of the Reproductive Health Act should be a reminder, however, that abortion-expansion legislation “has been around for six years and never achieved a floor vote in either house,” as Gallagher points out. “The governor is using and exploiting these other women’s issues to expand abortion because he knows how hard it will be for lawmakers to vote against a packaged bill.”

It’s a strategy that might make him an early favorite of Planned Parenthood in the 2016 Democratic primary if he marshals this through.

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