Stop Sign STOP the Reproductive Health Act!

(New York's Version of FOCA)

Feminists Choosing Life of New York strongly opposes the Reproductive Health Act (S5808) on the basis that it threatens the medical safety of women, disregards and disrespects the life of the fetus at all stages of development. This bill is dangerous and blatantly promotes and supports legal but unsafe abortions for women.

S5808 Threatens the safety of women

  • The abortion procedure would no longer require a licensed physician to be present. (S1701)
  • Makes prosecution for coerced, forced or so called “botched” abortions impossible due to removal of all abortion terminology from NY Penal Code. (S1703)

S5808 Amended Section 125 of NY Penal Law

  • No protection for women who unknowingly receive abortion medication from someone who does not want her to continue her pregnancy.
  • Prevents medical examiners from investigating deaths caused by suspected criminal abortion.
  • Abortions leading to a woman’s death cannot be tried as Manslaughter even if performed by an unauthorized provider.
  • Removes all possibility of enacting parental consent laws for minors seeking abortion.
  • Removes all possibility of enacting Unborn Victims of Violence legislation.

S5808 Disregards and Disrespects the Life of the Fetus at all stages of Development

  • Seeks to override the Supreme Court ban on Partial Birth abortion by allowing termination up to the point of birth if a physician deems it necessary for the “health” of the woman. (S1701) This term, “health of the woman” is intentionally subjective and unspecific, thus can be used for virtually any minor medical or emotional difficulty. The Supreme Court ruled that PBA is never medically necessary.

FCLNY believes this legislation has been proposed as a calculated political maneuver at the expense of all women and that the very title of the bill is designed to deceive. Don’t be fooled.

 

Contact your State Senator Today: Stop S05808

Tell your Senator: The Reproductive Health Act threatens the medical safety of women and children in our state. It promotes unsafe medical practices by denying women who choose abortion the protection of a licensed physician and by denying children surviving an abortion the right to immediate medical intervention. It wipes away years of legislation designed to provide protective restrictions for abortions provided in this state. This bill ensures legal but unsafe abortions and must not be passed.

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