After much back and forth, the Times Union finally printed my letter regarding Coumo's women's Equality Act. Hope he takes us up on the offer!
Letter: Delete abortion from equality bill
To the editor
Published 3:49 pm, Thursday, June 13, 2013
Try as he might, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's new bill is nothing more than a bullying technique to promote abortion under the guise of women's equality.
While the Women's Equality Act has much good in regard to fair pay, domestic violence and human trafficking, the insertion of his extreme pro-abortion agenda has nothing to do with women's equality and makes abortion untouchable in the state. The bill fails to define who can and cannot perform an abortion, opening the door, in my view, to non-physicians being permitted to perform this procedure. Doctors know how dangerous late-term abortions are and do not want to do them.
Gov. Cuomo's obvious ignorance of the real harm abortion does to countless women is more than evident by his biased statements. Instead of promoting abortion, he should be putting bills in place that truly protect women by informing them of the dangers of abortion and safeguarding them from coercion and poor conditions.
The rest is here: http://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/Letter-Delete-abortion-from-equality-bill-4598880.php
