NY lawmakers push to prevent abortion clinics from facing out-of-state lawsuits

[Demovictory9]

“Anti-abortion states are not going to settle with banning abortion within their borders,” Cohen told Gothamist. “They are going to want to stop as many abortions as possible.”

In a March op-ed in the New York Times, Cohen and his co-authors cautioned that the Missouri proposal represents “a new tactic in the coming abortion wars” and laid out the steps that states seeking to act as safe havens should take to protect their abortion providers from legal action.

New York State Assemblymember Charles Lavine, a Democrat from Long Island, told Gothamist it was Cohen’s op-ed that prompted him to introduce a trio of bills in late March that aim to increase legal safeguards for New York abortion providers. Similar bills were introduced by State Sen. Liz Krueger in her chamber.

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One of the bills would prevent the governor of New York from recognizing any demand from another state to extradite an abortion provider, as long as they were in New York when they performed the procedure. It would also protect those who prescribe abortion pills to patients in other states via telemedicine.

Another bill would prevent law enforcement agencies in New York from cooperating with any out-of-state agencies or individuals seeking to take legal action against a New York abortion provider.

A third would prohibit New York courts from issuing subpoenas in connection with out-of-state abortion proceedings.

https://gothamist.com/news/ny-lawmakers-push-to-prevent-abortion-clinics-from-facing-out-of-state-lawsuits

[JohnSJ]

1. Rescind any extradition from any state that opposes a woman's right to choose

[wnylib]

2. Other pro choice states need to do the same.

Let NY's laws be a template for pro choice states.

[localroger]

3. Won't matter if the Turtle manages to push through a national ban /nt