Even the pro-abortion American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) abortion policy states: “The need for abortions . . . represents failures in the social environment and the educational system.” It is naive to believe that this societal failure can be forcibly fixed via ham handed legislation such as what has been recently introduced by […]
All abortion procedures are invasive. Certain abortion procedures require surgery. Cuomo’s Abortion Expansion Agenda (RHA) is so radical that it reduces quality of care for women by allowing lower level medical providers to perform risky surgical procedures. Allowing non-physicians to provide surgery (say nothing of non-surgeon physicians) serves only to reduce quality of care for […]
Do legislators know enough about medicine and the practice of medicine to feel comfortable legislating medicine? The Policy on Abortion from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists ends with this strong statement: “The intervention of legislative bodies into medical decision making is inappropriate, ill advised, and dangerous.” By attempting to make abortion and contraception fundamental […]
Under New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s ten point Women’s Equality Act it is proposed that access to contraceptives should be a human right. This of course trumps the doctor/patient relationship as well as parental rights. A leading endocrinologist from New York comments on the nature of hormonal contraceptives, why they are labeled carcinogenic by the […]
Anyone who has ever worked with physicians can tell you they are a hard bunch to nail down. Their schedules are so packed that they only come up for air after their blood oxygen saturation level approaches zero. And if you happen to be lucky enough to be there when they do surface and are […]
It appears that New York government has a case of political schizophrenia. Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins in a recent interview insists that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s radical abortion agenda (RHA) is merely a housekeeping measure to align state law with federal statue. By way of stubborn fact two things should be pointed out: The Reproductive Health Act […]
2016 Presidential hopeful Andrew Cuomo has vowed to enact the Reproductive Health Act (RHA). This bill stipulates and implies the following: Contraception and abortion enacted as fundamental rights at any age without parental consent Excludes conscience protections for medical providers who refuse to refer for abortion and contraception thereby placing them at risk for charges […]