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“People believe that women’s reproductive rights and the recognition of rights for near-term children are mutually exclusive. They are not,” Collett added.

The plaintiffs are requesting the court to acknowledge First Amendment rights for women whose unborn children are killed by assailants and to clarify dangerous ambiguities in the RHA that affect women. They are also requesting the court to affirm existing, but previously unrecognized rights for near-term unborn children and children who survive abortion.

Civiletto pointed out that “viable unborn children are the last remaining category of human beings denied human rights. It’s time to change that.

In addition to Gov. Cuomo, plaintiffs also named New York Attorney General Letitia James, Commissioner of Health Howard Zucker, and other state officials.

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