Susan Harper (left, in pink) and Terri Mazur, both past chairs of NYSBA’s Women in Law Section, presenting the section’s report on abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment to the bar association’s House of Delegates on Nov. 5. Courtesy of the New York State Bar Association
After a nearly unanimous vote of its 277-member House of Delegates, the New York State Bar Association has announced it will lobby for congressional passage of a federal law prohibiting restrictions on a woman’s right to choose to end a pregnancy.
“I am deeply concerned that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is denying women their right to be equal citizens and their right to privacy and liberty under the 14th Amendment,” said Sherry Levin Wallach, the New York State Bar Association’s president, in announcing that the influential, 70,000-member group will publicly push for a federal right to abortion.
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