
ACT NOW: DEMAND STATE LEADERS PASS THE RHA
Reforming New York law’s is critical to honoring our state’s values of equality and autonomy. As we always have, women will find ways to end pregnancies regardless of the legal landscape or the penalties. Roe v. Wade didn’t mark the beginning of abortions in America – it was the end of women dying en masse from illegal abortions. Making abortion illegal or inaccessible only pushes abortion underground, criminalizing women’s decisions about their bodies, and harming the most marginal among us: poor women and women of color. With Roe in such peril, the question for our state is how much we would punish a woman in her quest to live her life with dignity.