Posted on 04/13/2024 3:43:13 AM PDT by Libloather
A New York ballot initiative, the Equal Rights Amendment, is facing fierce backlash over its vague language that would reportedly prevent parents from signing off on their child undergoing gender reassignment surgery.
"Any decent lawyer will take one look at the Proposition One language and say, ‘you’ve got to be kidding me," Greg Garvey, the executive director of the Coalition to Protect Kids - New York, a group "dedicated to defeating the so-called Equal Rights Amendment," said in a press statement provided to Fox News Digital.
"This ballot initiative is written so broadly and so poorly that it could cause irreparable harm to children and families. This is no soft-sounding equal rights amendment, it’s nothing less than The Parent Replacement Act."
The New York Legislature passed the Equal Rights Amendment in January 2023, bringing the amendment to voters on the Nov. 5 ballot this year for ratification. Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul celebrated its passage last year, adding that New York would "combat discrimination" and "protect abortion access" following the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, which ended the recognition of a constitutional right to abortion.
"Here in New York, we will continue to take bold measures to protect the rights of New Yorkers, and I applaud the New York State Legislature for taking another crucial step toward enshrining the Equal Rights Amendment into the state constitution. Last year, I was proud to convene an Extraordinary Session of the legislature that led to first passage of this historic amendment, and I am grateful the amendment is on its way to being presented to voters next year," Hochul said at the time.
The proposal will reportedly codify abortion rights in the state constitution and add constitutional protections to its already existing protections regarding race and religion.
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Insanity
If this is it...
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S108/amendment/A
...it’s a cluster. It’s so poorly written it could mean anything anyone in power wants to mean.
What a mess.
Liberals are incapable of self thought. Their lives need to be dictated by government rules and regulations so they know what to do.
Screw the vote banning such crap - start cleaning them out with 12 gauge “street-sweepers” until they get the message...
It’s truly amazing that in 1958, the year I was born, new parents couldn’t take the new baby home if they couldn’t show gainful employment.
Trans surgery. For CHILDREN!
Let’s hear some examples of those whose rights aren’t protected now.
Death penalty for being involved in the enterprise of organized child castration. Start with doctors, but also including parents, teachers, directors of corporations that promote it, etc.
Fixed.
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