New York Senate Defeats Andrew Cuomo’s Radical Abortion Bill

The failure of a last-ditch hostile amendment to try to effect passage of the Abortion Expansion Act is a remarkable victory for unborn children, as well as vulnerable women and girls who so often face unrelenting societal and family pressure to abort.

That’s the feeling of pro-life groups and the state’s Catholic bishops following the defeat of the radical abortion bill pro-abortion New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was promoting in the state legislature.

Senator Jeff Klein, leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, offered the late-term abortion expansion plank of Governor Cuomo’s Women’s Equality Act as a hostile amendment to a bill having to do with medical records. The amendment failed to garner the votes necessary to pass.

The Rev. Jason J. McGuire, President of New Yorker’s Family Research Foundation, made the following comments:

“New Yorker’s Family Research Foundation is thankful that late-term abortion expansion legislation has failed to pass the State Senate. New York is already the abortion capital of the nation, and the last thing New York needs is more abortion. It is wonderful to see so many New Yorkers—including Members of the Legislature—bravely standing for the unborn. Late-term abortion expansion would harm women and families, as well as resulting in the loss of more innocent lives. The Senate has done the right thing.”

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