Skip to main content

We are urgently seeking 500 new Life Defenders (monthly supporters) before the end of October to help save babies from abortion 365 days a year. Your first gift as a Life Defender today will be DOUBLED. Click here to make your monthly commitment.

Live Action LogoLive Action
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, abortion

Legislators push for pro-abortion amendment to New York constitution

Icon of a megaphoneNewsbreak·By Jacob Airey

Legislators push for pro-abortion amendment to New York constitution

Abortion advocates in New York are pushing for a pro-abortion amendment to the state constitution in the state’s 2024 election ballot measure. One group is trying to raise over $20 million to convince New Yorkers to support the proposal. 

Axios reports that the “amendment would effectively block state lawmakers from passing new laws restricting abortion.” It would ban discrimination on the basis of “ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, and sex” and would create protections for pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive “health care and autonomy.”

“New Yorkers for Equal Rights, the group spearheading the initiative, aims to raise $20 million to spend on TV and digital ads, direct mail programs, grassroots organizing and voter education, according to a fact sheet viewed by Axios,” reported the news source. “A number of prominent New York Democrats are also involved, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Gov. Kathy Hochul.”

In addition, New Yorkers for Equal Rights is partnering with unions and groups, including Planned Parenthood’s issue advocacy arm, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and the state’s NAACP chapter.

The pro-abortion lawmakers are attempting to stir up fear by engaging in euphemisms such as labeling the horrifying abortion procedures as “women’s rights” or “women’s reproductive rights.”

Dear Reader,

Every day in America, more than 2,800 preborn babies lose their lives to abortion.

That number should break our hearts and move us to action.

Ending this tragedy requires daily commitment from people like you who refuse to stay silent.

Millions read Live Action News each month — imagine the impact if each of us took a stand for life 365 days a year.

Right now, we’re urgently seeking 500 new Life Defenders (monthly donors) to join us before the end of October. And thanks to a generous $250,000 matching grant, your first monthly gift will be DOUBLED to help save lives and build a culture that protects the preborn.

Will you become one of the 500 today? Click here now to become a Live Action Life Defender and have your first gift doubled.

Together, we can end abortion and create a future where every child is cherished and every mother is supported.

Thumbnail for 1st Trimester Abortion | Suction Dilation and Curettage (D&C) | What is Abortion?

According to The New York Times, NY Attorney General Letitia James claimed, “As I travel, reproductive rights is an issue which comes up over and over again.”

The narrative is all too clear, stopping abortion stops so-called reproductive rights and by proxy, human rights. However, abortion is not a human right as it denies the basic right to life of innocent human beings in the womb, allowing them to be killed for any reason. 

As Live Action News contributor Nancy Flanders points out, “So while abortion advocates claim that pro-life laws restrict a woman’s so-called ‘human right’ to ‘control their bodies’ by killing innocent humans, the truth is that pro-life laws protect the basic human right to life that pro-abortion laws try to steal from a certain class of human beings.”

Pro-abortion lawmakers in New York have been pushing dogmatic views of abortion, including a recent bill that requires colleges and universities to offer the abortion pill on campuses.

Live Action News is pro-life news and commentary from a pro-life perspective.

Contact editor@liveaction.org for questions, corrections, or if you are seeking permission to reprint any Live Action News content.

Guest Articles: To submit a guest article to Live Action News, email editor@liveaction.org with an attached Word document of 800-1000 words. Please also attach any photos relevant to your submission if applicable. If your submission is accepted for publication, you will be notified within three weeks. Guest articles are not compensated (see our Open License Agreement). Thank you for your interest in Live Action News!

Read Next

Read NextPremature newborn  baby girl in the hospital incubator after c-section in 33 weeks
Human Interest

Study: Mother's voice stimulates premature babies' brain development

Bridget Sielicki

·

Spotlight Articles