Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins commented that New York is removing the barriers to women’s rights.
On the other hand, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said they passed bills to” ensure New Yorkers can control their family planning decisions, have access to the reproductive healthcare they need and will not be discriminated for their choices.”
Meanwhile, Sen. Kruger said, “The decision about whether to have an abortion is deeply personal. It involves a complex weighing of a woman’s unique circumstances, her medical needs, her private morality, and her own body. That is why it is a decision that must be made by a woman and her healthcare provider alone – not by the government.”
