Protecting Human Life

According to the National Conference of State Legislators, taking the life of an unborn child in an attack on that child’s mother is a crime in at least 38 states. When committed on federally-owned property and in certain other instances, such acts are also punishable as federal crimes under the Unborn Victims of Violence Act…

Last week, Albany Update reported that physician-assisted suicide legislation had advanced from the Assembly Health Committee to the Assembly Codes Committee by a slender margin of 14-11. New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms is working with our friends at the New York Alliance Against Assisted Suicide (NYAAAS) to keep this pernicious legislation from advancing any further…

On May 23, 2016, the New York State Assembly Health Committee considered physician-assisted suicide legislation (Bill S.7579-Savino/A.10059-Paulin). In order for the 26-member Health Committee to advance a bill, that bill must receive at least 14 “yea” votes. Following debate and discussion, the Committee voted, 14-11, to advance the bill; the legislation now moves to the…

On May 4, a lawsuit was filed in state court to challenge abortion mandates decreed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS). Effective January 1, 2016, the DFS is mandating that all health insurers operating in New York require small group employers (employers with fewer than 100 full-time employees) to provide medical…

Last week brought two positive developments in the movement to oppose physician-assisted suicide. The first piece of good news comes from Albany. On Wednesday, May 4, the New York Alliance Against Assisted Suicide (NYAAAS) welcomed doctors and allied health professionals to Albany to make the medical case against doctor-assisted death. The doctors held a press conference in the…

In April 2007, then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer introduced the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act (RHAPP), declaring that “‘New York State [would] continue to be a beacon of civil rights and protection of women’s rights.’” The RHAPP would have guaranteed a fundamental “right” to abortion at any point in a pregnancy. In the years since the…

On April 20, 2016, the House Select Panel on Infant Lives held a hearing on the grisly and inhumane practice of selling the organs and tissues of aborted babies. According to The Federalist, the Panel’s hearing “reveal[ed] evidence of a significant market in fetal organ sales.” Due to courageous investigative reporting done by David Daleiden…

As a Christian, pro-life organization, New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms strongly opposes the push to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Assisted suicide denies the dignity and worth of every human life; makes physicians and pharmacists complicit in the taking of innocent life; gives insurers a financial incentive to steer terminally ill persons toward suicide to avoid paying…

Over the past several months, advocates of physician-assisted suicide have held a variety of events in Albany and in other areas of the state to push their agenda. On Tuesday, March 8, the New York Alliance Against Assisted Suicide, of which New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms is a member organization, held an event of its own…

As a pro-life, Christian organization, New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms has taken a strong stand against proposals to legalize physician-assisted suicide in New York. Following the introduction of two different assisted-suicide bills (Bill S.5814-A-Bonacic/A.5261-C-Paulin and Bill S.3685-Savino/A.2129-A-Rosenthal), NYCF has allied itself with other organizations opposed to assisted suicide in an effort to coordinate our efforts…

In June 2013, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s morally repugnant abortion expansion bill was blocked by one vote. Members of both parties voted against abortion expansion, with every single Republican senator voting “no.” Unfortunately, one of those same Republican senators has now flip-flopped.