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January 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Today, victims of domestic violence and others filed a class action lawsuit against Governor Andrew Cuomo challenging the constitutionality of New York’s pro-abortion Reproductive Health Act (RHA). This is the first time a New York abortion law is challenged for violating both women’s rights and the rights of children, including viable unborn children.
The complaint, among other things, asks the court to acknowledge First Amendment rights for women whose unborn children are killed by assailants, to clarify dangerous ambiguities in the RHA that impact women, and to affirm existing, but previously unrecognized, rights for near-term unborn children and children who survive abortion.
Plaintiffs are represented by a team of attorneys serving as special counsel to the Women’s Alliance Against Violence, an initiative formed to challenge the RHA and other laws that increase violence against women and children.
In January 2019, New York enacted the RHA. This controversial law introduced a number of changes to New York law, including ones that, according to the Women’s Alliance Against Violence, an initiative of the Thomas More Society, harm
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