Cardinal Dolan Cites Gosnell’s Atrocities In Opposing Proposed N.Y. Abortion Law
By Catholic News Service
ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) — If New York
Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushes to have “a right to an abortion” codified in
state law, he will face “vociferous” and “rigorous” opposition from
Catholic and other pro-lifers, said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New
York.
But the cardinal hopes it doesn’t come to that because Cuomo, he
said, has told him “he wants to work hard on alternatives to abortion,”
such as expanding adoption, having “greater latitude” in maternity leave
and better assisting pregnant women in need and those with small
children.
The cardinal made the comments in a May 14 telephone interview with
radio host Fred Dicker, whose show is broadcast on Talk 1300 AM from the
state Capitol in Albany. Dicker is a political analyst and is state
editor for the New York Post daily newspaper.
“The governor and I have worked closely on other issues,” Cardinal
Dolan said, listing immigration, gun control, a call to civic
responsibility and the recovery of some money owed to Catholic schools
in the form of reimbursements for state-mandated measures such as
standardized testing.
“We’ve been with him and we’ve appreciated what he’s done. I want to
believe he means it when he tells me he’s not going to expand what is
already a terrible liberal abortion culture,” Cardinal Dolan said, but
added that Cuomo has yet to release the details of the measure, called
the Women’s Equality Act.
It is an “extreme oxymoron that abortion is seen as helping women’s
health, especially if half the babies aborted” are female, the cardinal
said. “So how does this help them?”
Besides abortion, the provisions of Cuomo’s proposed 10-point Women’s
Equality Act address pay equity; sexual harassment in the workplace;
human trafficking; income, housing, family-status and pregnancy
discrimination; stronger order-of-protection laws for victims of
domestic violence; and recovery of attorney fees in employment and
credit/lending cases.
“We’re in his corner on most of them — nine out of 10,” Cardinal
Dolan said. “But just this one about expansion of abortion that causes
us pause. … Please, this is the last thing this state needs.”
New York decriminalized abortion in 1970, before the Roe v. Wade
decision made abortion legal virtually on demand across the country.
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