New York State abortion bill now allows babies, At any point of pregnancy, to be aborted

[BillStime]

On 1/23/2019 at 9:37 PM, B-Man said:

 

 

The legislation provides a further exception to permit abortion at any point during pregnancy if a health-care practitioner deems it necessary for the mother’s life or health — the exception that was defined in Roe companion case Doe v. Bolton as “all factors — physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age — relevant to the wellbeing of the patient.” In other words, abortion will be available to women essentially on demand up to the point of birth.

 

The RHA will also decriminalize abortion, moving it from the state’s criminal code to the public-health code.

 

The Reproductive Health Act strips abortions from the penal code and adds the following language:

"The legislature finds that comprehensive reproductive health care is a fundamental component of every individual's health, privacy and equality.

"Therefore, it is the policy of the state that:

"Every individual has the fundamental right to choose or refuse contraception or sterilization. Every individual who becomes pregnant has the fundamental right to choose to carry the pregnancy to term, to give birth to a child, or to have an abortion, pursuant to this article." 

Cuomo wants to go even further, saying earlier this month that abortion rights should be added to the state constitution.

 

 

The new law will allow a licensed "health-care practitioner" acting under their scope of practice to perform an abortion when:

"According to the practitioner's reasonable and good faith professional judgment based on the facts of the patient's case: the patient is within twenty-four weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, or there is an absence of fetal viability, or the abortion is necessary to protect the patient's life or health."

So the measure will make late-term abortions legal at the discretion of a health-care practitioner based on the viability of the fetus or if the woman's life or health is in jeopardy.

And the act will codify Roe v. Wade protections into state law if the case were to be overturned by the Supreme Court, which Cuomo cited as the main reason for needing the new state law.

 

"That's why we had to pass this law, to protect our state," Cuomo said at his bill signing. "And that's why I believe we have to go even a step further and do a constitutional amendment."

 

Prior state law only allowed physicians to perform abortions.

 

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/albany/2019/01/22/abortion-laws-new-york-how-they-change-immediately/2643065002/

Do you have kids?

[B-Man]

9 minutes ago, BillStime said:

 

 

 

 

Me and My Shadow.

 

 

 

 

 

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York closing centers, laying off staff

NEW YORK — Planned Parenthood of Greater New York has begun laying off and furloughing employees and will temporarily close a dozen of its health centers, citing a strain on resources posed by the coronavirus pandemic.

 

The organization — which formed in January through the merger of five Planned Parenthood affiliates, including the Mohawk Hudson affiliate in the Capital Region — began terminating and furloughing staff on Monday, according to emails obtained by the Times Union. Staff will be reduced by about 28 percent across all departments, either through permanent termination, or through furloughs and reduced hours through June 30.

 

The temporary closure of health centers will leave some communities, such as Rome and Oneida in Central New York, with no nearby options for sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing or abortion services, according to staff at those centers.

 

“Our concern is that there was no effort to keep offices open, even one or two days per week, in those communities,” said one staff member who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity. “Those patients have a very hard time traveling, and don’t have access to care anywhere else.”   (FALSE)

 

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York President and CEO Laura McQuade wrote in a letter to staff Monday that financial modeling showed losses for the affiliate ranging from $20 million to $32 million for the remainder of the year, depending on how long the pandemic lasts and its impact on fundraising.

 

(Excerpt) Read more at timesunion.com .

 

 

 

 

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Edited April 12, 2020 by B-Man

[B-Man]

 

 

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY: 

 

Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: Abortions Are ‘Life-Sustaining.’

 

 

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

[Albwan]

On 4/12/2020 at 6:44 PM, B-Man said:

 

 

Me and My Shadow.

 

 

 

 

 

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York closing centers, laying off staff

NEW YORK — Planned Parenthood of Greater New York has begun laying off and furloughing employees and will temporarily close a dozen of its health centers, citing a strain on resources posed by the coronavirus pandemic.

 

The organization — which formed in January through the merger of five Planned Parenthood affiliates, including the Mohawk Hudson affiliate in the Capital Region — began terminating and furloughing staff on Monday, according to emails obtained by the Times Union. Staff will be reduced by about 28 percent across all departments, either through permanent termination, or through furloughs and reduced hours through June 30.

 

The temporary closure of health centers will leave some communities, such as Rome and Oneida in Central New York, with no nearby options for sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing or abortion services, according to staff at those centers.

 

“Our concern is that there was no effort to keep offices open, even one or two days per week, in those communities,” said one staff member who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity. “Those patients have a very hard time traveling, and don’t have access to care anywhere else.”   (FALSE)

 

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York President and CEO Laura McQuade wrote in a letter to staff Monday that financial modeling showed losses for the affiliate ranging from $20 million to $32 million for the remainder of the year, depending on how long the pandemic lasts and its impact on fundraising.

 

(Excerpt) Read more at timesunion.com .

 

 

 

 

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What a shame ...tibsgarqstime must be infuriated

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

She sounds impartial. Solid journalism.

 

CBS News reporter notes frustration in justice’s voices over denying employees birth control coverage

 

 

As Twitchy reported, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday concerning the Trump administration’s rollback of Obamacare rules requiring employers to provide free birth control coverage for employees.

 

Kate Smith is CBS News’ reporter covering “abortion access,” and she can hear the frustration in the female justice’s voices 

 

 

 

 

Nuns. The government is suing nuns.

 

Totally straightforward take from a CBS reporter here.

On Planet Earth, the plaintiffs are a group of nuns who are currently caring for disadvantaged patients in coronavirus-struck nursing homes.

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

In a tweet that sends irony meters into orbit, Planned Parenthood would like to wish all the moms out there a Happy Mother’s Day.

 

 

 

 

Yeah, they should probably go ahead and sit this one out.

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

Not surprising...........

 

Planned Parenthood affiliates improperly applied for and received $80 million in coronavirus stimulus funds, feds say

 

 

Thirty-seven Planned Parenthood affiliates applied for and received a total of $80 million in loans from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" has learned -- and now the federal government wants the money back, saying the affiliates should have known they weren't eligible for the coronavirus stimulus payouts.

 

The Small Business Administration (SBA) is reaching out to each involved Planned Parenthood affiliate explaining that affiliates of larger organizations with more than 500 employees aren't eligible for PPP distributions, Fox News is told. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PFFA) alone has had more than 600 employees.

 

 

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ..

 

 

 

[B-Man]

GQ PIECE ON THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT LABELS GEORGE WALLACE A REPUBLICAN.

 

As a Mr. A. Goldfinger would say, “Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.’”

 

 

 

 

 

GQ writer’s case that ‘the anti-abortion movement was always built on lies’ is … built on lies (including one really obvious one); UPDATED

 

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

Senate Democrats call on Trump admin to let Planned Parenthood keep PPP money it fraudulently collected

by Tom Tillison

 

Original Article

 

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, received $80 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans designed to assist small businesses survive in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

 

While there was widespread media outcry over corporations getting this funding, compete will calls for them to return the money, there has been relative quiet over 38 Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country receiving millions of dollars of aid included in the $2.3 trillion coronavirus stimulus measure.

 

And now Democrats are making a public appeal to let the abortion providers keep the money, insisted they are non-profit “health centers” — how’s that for audacity?

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

Planned Parenthood execs admit on video that they sold aborted baby parts for a profit

 

 

Thanks to sworn court testimony, we now have video of Planned Parenthood executives admitting that the organization, which receives a half-billion in funding from the government every year, sold “donated” body parts to a middleman for a profit.

 

 

 

 

I wonder if CBS News’ dedicated abortion access reporter will get on this?

 

Will someone please tell Vox’s Aaron Rupar he can take down his tweet calling those CMP videos “misleadingly edited”?

 

Planned Parenthood sells baby parts; they’ve admitted it on undercover video and in sworn video testimony.

 

 

 

 

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

On 4/12/2020 at 6:44 PM, B-Man said:

 

 

Me and My Shadow.

 

 

 

 

 

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York closing centers, laying off staff

NEW YORK — Planned Parenthood of Greater New York has begun laying off and furloughing employees and will temporarily close a dozen of its health centers, citing a strain on resources posed by the coronavirus pandemic.

 

The organization — which formed in January through the merger of five Planned Parenthood affiliates, including the Mohawk Hudson affiliate in the Capital Region — began terminating and furloughing staff on Monday, according to emails obtained by the Times Union. Staff will be reduced by about 28 percent across all departments, either through permanent termination, or through furloughs and reduced hours through June 30.

 

The temporary closure of health centers will leave some communities, such as Rome and Oneida in Central New York, with no nearby options for sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing or abortion services, according to staff at those centers.

 

“Our concern is that there was no effort to keep offices open, even one or two days per week, in those communities,” said one staff member who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity. “Those patients have a very hard time traveling, and don’t have access to care anywhere else.”   (FALSE)

 

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York President and CEO Laura McQuade wrote in a letter to staff Monday that financial modeling showed losses for the affiliate ranging from $20 million to $32 million for the remainder of the year, depending on how long the pandemic lasts and its impact on fundraising.

 

(Excerpt) Read more at timesunion.com .

 

 

 

 

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When an employee is terminated at Planned Parenthood, we support the choice of the organization or no?  I can't always remember the protocol. 

[B-Man]

 

[B-Man]

 

 

MARGARET SANGER SMILES: 

 

Planned Parenthood Outraged by ‘Violence Against Black Lives,’ But Won’t Stop Killing Black Babies.

 

 

 

 

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Edited June 4, 2020 by B-Man

[SectionC3]

This seems to be a good time to remind everyone that gun violence kills far more people in this country than does abortion.  

[SectionC3]

Not to be lost in the far right’s myopic focus on abortion and conception issues is the point that we’re all equal at the foot of the cross. It’s too bad that the anointed candidate of the Evangelicals doesn’t feel that way:

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/president-trump-rails-against-removal-beautiful-confederate-statues-n793451