Legislative Memo on the Equal Rights Amendment
The New York Constitution must be amended to include robust protections against discrimination that effectively work to hold our state and its institutions accountable for ending discrimination.
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The New York Constitution must be amended to include robust protections against discrimination that effectively work to hold our state and its institutions accountable for ending discrimination.
According to a leaked draft majority opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights.
Over the past decade, New York has enacted several truly historic pieces of legislation such that New Yorkers now find themselves protected by some of the most progressive labor laws in the nation – including increases to the minimum wage, paid family leave, paid sick time, workplace protections
Supported Decision-Making (SDM) is an important and tested means by which people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) can make their own decisions, with the support of trusted persons in their lives.
In the law enforcement context, police are required to read people in custody their rights. But CPS caseworkers have no equivalent mandate to inform parents of their rights in a child protective investigation, despite the similarly high stakes
The ability to control our reproductive lives – including the ability to end a pregnancy – is a cornerstone of women’s health care and equality. From partially decriminalizing abortion in 1970, three years before Roe v.