{"id":253294,"date":"2021-09-15T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=253294"},"modified":"2021-09-15T10:17:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T15:17:08","slug":"new-york-haven-abortion-governor-vows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-york-haven-abortion-governor-vows\/","title":{"rendered":"New York governor: We will be a ‘safe harbor’ for women ‘suffering oppression’ in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the wake of the Texas Heartbeat Law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul \u2014\u00a0who replaced Governor Andrew Cuomo after he resigned due to scandal \u2014\u00a0is vowing to protect abortion at all costs within the state, which already has some of the most pro-abortion laws in the nation.<\/p>\n

Hochul spoke at a press conference in Central Park before the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument, where she shared her reaction to the law in Texas protecting preborn babies with detectable heartbeats and which polling<\/a> has found that a plurality of Americans support. The law is unique in that it is enforced by private citizens, who can file suit against abortionists caught breaking the law and against others who aid and abet an abortion (except for the preborn child’s mother).\u00a0Myths<\/a> have spread like wildfire about the law, with one of the most nefarious being that a rapist could sue his victim. (This, of course, is completely\u00a0false<\/a>, according to the law itself.)<\/p>\n

Hochul delivered the speech in front of a monument to three women \u2014 Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton \u2014 who openly abhorred abortion<\/a> or fought for the rights<\/a> of women to remain with their children<\/a>. It’s a complete hijacking of what these women stood for to exploit their legacy for a pro-abortion agenda.<\/p>\n

Gesturing to those “brave women” behind her, Hochul said she plans to launch a public information campaign to educate New Yorkers about abortion, and called the Texas law “grotesquely unfair.” She also sent a fear-mongering message that women are due to lose their “rights” at any moment\u00a0\u2014 painting the ability to kill preborn children as a “sense of security” for women.<\/p>\n

“Women all across this nation have had to confront the prospect that rights we just took for granted our entire lives, rights that my grandmother had to fight for, rights that were just starting when my mother was a young woman, rights that were always there when I became a young adult, and rights that I assumed would be there for my now 30-something-year-old daughter… all of a sudden that sense of security we once had in our nation has been ripped apart,” she began.<\/p>\n

She said that when things are the darkest before the dawn, New Yorkers come together \u2014 and in this case, will be doing so by promoting and defending abortion.<\/p>\n