Putting Women in Danger: Gov’s Pro-Abortion Budget
True to form, Gov. Cuomo is trying to prove his progressive bona fides by encouraging even more abortions through his budget (“Cuomo’s Gift to Abortion Extremists,” Gracie Pozo Christie, PostOpinion, March 19).
New York already has one of the highest abortion rates in the United States. Women in need deserve better than abortion.
I wonder if Cuomo will do anything to strengthen child support payments or encourage easier adoptions. Alice Lemos Woodside
If Cuomo gets his way, many key limitations on abortion will be lifted.
Some babies are born alive during a late-term abortion procedure, and those infants are currently protected.
This bill would eliminate the law that requires that a baby born alive during an abortion be given adequate health care.
And the bill would eliminate the charge of homicide if an unborn baby is killed — even if it was against a mother’s will — or if an unborn child is deliberately targeted for an act of violence. Kathleen Weston East Rockaway
Cuomo’s proposal, which he describes as delivering “the promise of progressive government,” is a nightmare for the women of New York.
This not only denies the dignity of the child in and out of the womb, it offers no justice to the mother whose baby is killed while she is carrying.
Under the proposal, a father who cannot talk his girlfriend or wife into the abortion clinic would not face the penalty of homicide if he decides to do the job himself.
Every so often, a law is proposed in this country that places us below the level of basic human decency. This is such legislation. Catherine Adago Manhattan
The Post’s piece on abortion only talked about women. No woman wants an abortion. No woman wants to get pregnant when it’s unplanned.
The way to stop abortions is to put the pressure on men. They need to take responsibility.
Some men have more money and power than the woman they’re with, but knock her up and then walk away. It’s got to stop.
It’s the woman who gets pregnant and winds up with the challenge to raise the child, usually alone, or to have an abortion. S. D. Rosenbaum Manhattan