The legislature finds that comprehensive reproductive health care [includes] contraception and abortion.

What happens if a doctor disagrees?

The New York Constitution and United States Constitution protect a woman’s fundamental right to access safe, legal abortion.

… where?

If so, why push to change the NY Constitution?

Abortion is one of the safest medical procedures performed in the United States.

Really? What about the scores of peer-reviewed medical journal articles that demonstrate the contrary?

The goal of medical regulation should be to improve the quality and availability of health care services.

How does allowing non-doctors to perform abortions improve quality?

The goal of medical regulation should be to improve the quality and availability of health care services.

As the abortion capital of the US does NY really have an abortion availability problem?

With abortionists going out of business because of lack of demand, does NY really have an abortion availability problem?

Every individual possesses a fundamental right… [to seek] and [obtain] abortion care, free from discrimination in the provision of health care.

What does this mean for the pregnancy centers that have a fundamental right to freedom of speech, if they disagree?

What does this mean for doctors who have a fundamental right to freedom of religion, if they disagree?

Which “right” will win?

EVERY INDIVIDUAL WHO BECOMES PREGNANT HAS THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT… TO HAVE AN ABORTION

So now having an abortion is equal to freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, private property…?

What happens when those “rights” collide?

At what point will this “right” become a duty?

THE STATE SHALL NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST, DENY, OR INTERFERE WITH THE EXERCISE OF THE RIGHTS SET FORTH IN THIS SECTION

Meaning, government will ensure that every healthcare provider supports a woman’s access to an abortion.

A HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER LICENSED, CERTIFIED, OR AUTHORIZED UNDER TITLE EIGHT OF THE EDUCATION LAW… MAY PERFORM AN ABORTION

Translation: Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners can legally do abortions.

“Person,” when referring to the victim of a homicide, means a
human being who has been born and is alive.

New York State refuses to acknowledge the personhood of preborn boys and girls.

Murdering a pregnant woman is now just one homicide, not two.