New York Legislature Passes Bill to Investigate Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers for Not Doing Abortions, by Calvin Freiburger

‘This bill weaponizes the power of government against groups whose only wrong is that they disagree with the political positions of the powerful.’

ALBANY, New York (LifeSiteNews) – The New York legislature passed legislation that will effectively empower the state to investigate pro-life pregnancy centers for not offering abortions, effectively punishing them for their reason for existence.

The bill, S470/A5499, tasks the New York Commissioner of Health to “conduct a study and issue a report examining the unmet health and resource needs facing pregnant women in New York and the impact of limited service pregnancy centers” – meaning centers that do not provide abortions – “on the ability of women to obtain accurate, non-coercive health care information and timely access to a comprehensive range of reproductive and sexual health care services in alignment with their health care needs and that supports personal decision-making.” …

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