A counter protester holds a sign while standing on the sidewalk at Union Square during a pro-choice rally, on July 10. Many Democrats and abortion-rights supporters believe a new conservative justice could tilt the court in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade. Photo: Julie Jacobson/AP
New York state has been “lazy” in codifying reproductive rights in either a statute or in the state’s constitution, Attorney General Barbara Underwood said Thursday, arguing for more urgent action on the issue.
Federal reproductive rights face a potentially dire threat with the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to the U.S. Supreme Court, Underwood said. The attorney general said Kavanaugh “appears to have been selected for his potential to move us back.”
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