Hochul sees NY as abortion 'safe harbor,' but that's no sure bet

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : "We must keep fighting until the lives of unborn babies are fully protected in law, and the notion of abortion becomes so abhorrent that no mother would willfully choose it for her child," said Jason J. McGuire, executive director of an anti-abortion group called New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms.
43% : Ohio, for example, has enacted a ban on abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy, and while that law has been tied up in the courts, the Supreme Court ruling is expected to mean that near-ban on abortion is likely to go forward.
43% : Even though state lawmakers codified the right to abortion in New York in 2019, abortion rights supporters are pressing the legislature to pass an equal rights amendment that protects pregnant women and those who get abortions from discrimination.
41% :Legal experts on both sides of the abortion issue said Friday that by overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that found abortion to be a constitutional right, the justices opened the door to an unpredictable new era where states will go in radically different directions on the issue.
40% : "If people think abortion has been a hot political issue up until now, just wait," said Lucinda M. Finley, a professor of law at the University at Buffalo who represented the Pro-Choice Network of Western New York in a 1996 Supreme Court case.
40% : Meanwhile, abortion opponents in New York and nationwide will be pressing to end abortion in the Empire State.
38% : Pennsylvania could enact similar limits on abortion if Republican Doug Mastriano is elected governor, and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Friday proposed banning most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancyAbortion opponents are expected to look for ways to prevent women from traveling to another state to get an abortion, but Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh - who agreed to overturn Roe - said the Constitution will not allow that.
32% : Meanwhile, abortion opponents will press for Republicans to gain a majority in Congress and ban abortion outright - which would nullify not only any effort to make New York an abortion safe haven, but also make the procedure illegal in New York as well.
30% : Then again, New York isn't physically close to any of the nine states where abortion immediately became illegal with the Supreme Court's decision Friday.
30% : And the nearest of those states is Wisconsin, which has a law on the books that predated Roe that makes abortion illegal - and the Democratic governor of that state has said he's looking for ways to make sure that law won't be enforced.
30% :That challenge would be moot if Congress were to ban abortion nationwide, which former Vice President Mike Pence proposed on Friday.
29% : Support this work for $1 a month Jerry ZremskiWASHINGTON - Gov. Kathy Hochul vowed that New York would remain "a safe harbor" for women from states where abortion will become illegal in the wake of the Supreme Court's landmark decision Friday that overturned the court's five-decade-old decision guaranteeing the right to terminate a pregnancy.

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