New York moves to enshrine abortion rights in state constitution

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The US state of New York moved to enshrine abortion rights and access to contraception in its constitution Friday, becoming a vanguard in the pushback against a seismic ruling by the country's Supreme Court that upended reproductive rights nationwide.

The state Senate "advanced the first passage of an amendment to codify the right to an abortion and the right to contraception in the State Constitution," it said in a statement.

New York state law already permits abortions, so the move would add an extra layer of legal protection for the procedure.

The amendment also seeks to "update the existing Equal Rights Amendment to extend current protections to several new classes, including on the basis of sex, disability, national origin, ethnicity, and age," it said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-york-moves-to-enshrine-abortion-rights-in-state-constitution/ar-AAZ5Zwq

[captain queeg]

1. The rethugs who are always talking about states rights will flip flop on this one.

[Igel]

2. That would involve overturning Dobbs.

I don't think that the current court would so quickly decide that they were utterly wrong in returning the issue to state legislatures. A bit too hair-pinny a curve for the current gang.

[Polybius]

3. It this largely symbolic?

Abortion access is already plentiful in NY.