New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made headlines recently by cramming a gun law through the state legislature that is so restrictive that it limits the amount of ammunition members of law enforcement can carry on the job. Clearly, though, New Yorkers ain’t seen nothing yet. Cuomo’s next act – pushing through the 6-year-old Reproductive Health Care bill – if accomplished, will represent the biggest assault on the liberties of residents conceivably in the Empire State’s 236-year history.
The National Catholic Register (h/t Weasel Zippers) notes that the bill has become a facet of the governor’s own “10-point ‘women’s equality’ agenda, which includes a raise in the minimum wage, tougher anti-housing discrimination laws and measures against domestic violence and sex-trafficking.”
The most stunning part of the legislation, however, is its removal of criminal penalties for abortions after 24 weeks by adding a broad health exception. Currently, late-term abortions are allowable when carrying the fetus to term poses a danger to the mother’s life.
The article quotes Chris Slattery, director of the pro-life Expectant Mother Care (EMC) pregnancy centers in New York City, who says, the new law will make the city the late-term abortion capital of the world. In a sense, it’s already the abortion capital, with 33 percent of pregnancies ending in abortion — nearly twice the national rate.
The exact cut-off point at which a fetus becomes “viable” – able to survive outside the fetus – is a “gray area.” Some health professionals believe that a fetus is not viable until the 27th week of gestation, while others maintain that viability occurs as early as 21 weeks. The Reproductive Health Care Act splits the difference, erring (depending on your point of view) on the side of caution or the side of murder.
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Today, at Mass, the intentions included a mention to pray for “our” president that he might learn to respect life from its beginnings at conception to its natural death.
I whispered to my wife, rolling my eyes, “[t]hat’s a wasted breath if there ever was one…” a man wearing an Ancient Order of Hibernians polo, at church with his 4 or so year old son… looked at me, smirked and nodded, then looked at ancient Chuck Colgan – State Senator and he makes everyone know it – and shook his head… (Colgan is a Dem…)
My wife elbowed me for causing a controversy, she’d rather just duck in, duck out, and let the world go by without anyone noticing much.
Cuomo is a Demon. He’s a leader in the Party of Death, the Party of Utilitarianism, The Party of Fornication, Covetousness, and Sloth. He is a minion of Satan left unchastised by the Church that he so fervently persecutes.
Charles Colgan is a nice man, or presents himself that way. In truth, he’s just another obedient crew member of Death’s Barge, pulling an oar for Satan.
Evil is a disease, it spreads in men’s hearts faster than the Black Plague murdered off almost half of Europe. Demons like Cuomo, and their toadies like Colgan spread the pestilence. Our children are badly infected, and 45,000,000 or more have been murdered off as a tribute to the false god of the self.
Nothing will change unless we begin to speak up, unafraid of, unbowed, and unbroken by evil.
r/John – TMF
Sad but interesting book ends. He respects neither. Like his sometime science czar John Holdren, he believes lives are expendable at both ends of the spectrum — that fetuses (and in the case of Holdren, young children) and the elderly contribute nothing to society.
I have to ask…is that picture really Cuomo (I escaped NY before he got there)? If so does it look like Bloomberg to anybody else? Spooky…
The more important question is does he think like Bloomberg? The answer is guilty as charged.
equally important questions…I’m thinking one of those separated at birth things (or Bloomie was fooling around with Mrs. Cuomo).
I have long had a theory that exposure to salt air does bad things to peoples’ brains (would explain much of the east coast and coastal areas in the west)…maybe Bloomie knows that and is trying to minimize the impact by eliminating the salt shakers at the table.
Coumo is positioning himself for a run as the 2016 democrat Presidential nominee. He’s judged that Obama has proven that the most extreme leftist who pretends at ‘reasonable moderation’ will win the nomination.
He’s building his national resume by pushing extreme leftist legislation.
That’s why Coumo speaks of “hunters don’t need assault weapons to hunt deer’ as if the right to bear arms is about hunters. That’s why he characterizes unrestricted abortion as a “woman’s rights” issue.
If I’m right, over the next three years Cuomo will continue to seize any opportunity to draw public attention as the front runner in pushing the leftist agenda.
You are probably correct. I once heard that NAAG was not Nat’l Assoc of Attny Gens but rather Nat’l Assoc of Aspiring Governors. I would say that we can take some comfort in that liberal Noo Yawkas don’t sell well in much of the country because they can’t hide their sense of snobbish superiority (I’ll admit a character flaw in that I think that most stereotypes have some basis in fact).