Now anti-abortion forces are again pushing the lie that New Yorkers' reproductive freedom is completely safe. But if that were true, they wouldn't be working
As we head toward election day next week, with Early Voting well underway, New Yorkers continue to be bombarded with off-the-wall lies spread by anti-abortion activists about what Proposition 1, the Equal Rights Amendment, will do. As the State Senate sponsor of the ERA, I feel that perhaps the most damaging of those lies is that New Yorkers’ abortion rights and reproductive freedom are not at risk.
Now anti-abortion forces are again pushing the lie that New Yorkers’ reproductive freedom is completely safe. But if that were true, they wouldn’t be working so hard to defeat Prop 1. What they know is that only six years ago there was an anti-abortion majority in the State Senate, and only two years ago a virulently anti-abortion candidate came within a few points of being elected governor.
So what about all the other disinformation? There has been a flood of increasingly outlandish conspiracy theories about what Prop 1 will do. They are all false. Prop 1 will not allow non-citizens to vote or receive any benefits that they are not already entitled to. The federal government, not states, determines citizenship and therefore the boundaries of any benefits based on citizenship status. Article II, Section I of the State Constitution governs qualifications for voting, and is very clear that only citizens can vote.
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