An Op-Ed by the Governor of New York
In
his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Trump
attacked the law that New York passed last month codifying a woman’s
right to an abortion, and he proposed federal legislation to roll back
the protections provided by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. The
president’s diatribe was part of the far-right’s escalation of its assault on a woman’s constitutional rights.
It’s
worth recalling that in 1999, long before he ran for president, Mr.
Trump described himself as “very pro-choice.” Today he claims to be
anti-choice, and he shamelessly courts the religious right to win votes.
Too
much of today’s political discourse is extreme. But emotions run
especially high when politics and religion intersect — as in the debate
about a woman’s right to choose. As a Roman Catholic, I am intimately
familiar with the strongly held views of the church. Still, I do not
believe that religious values should drive political positions.
I
just signed the Reproductive Health Act into law to protect against the
Republicans’ efforts to pack the Supreme Court with extreme
conservatives to overturn the constitutional protections recognized in
Roe v. Wade.
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Source: The New York Times
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