New York Democrats and other radicals have advanced a ballot initiative that may ultimately pit the state’s bill of rights against conservatives, religious residents, and others opposed to gender ideology and abortion.
The presently “vague” wording of the proposed New York Equal Protection of Law Amendment (ERA), championed by Planned Parenthood and various other leftist organizations, has some critics worried that there may be ruinous consequences besides the codification of abortion in the state constitution.
Just the News noted that some opponents have expressed concerns that the ERA might enable children to get sex changes without parental consent and altogether weaken laws that presently protect children.
The ERA, introduced and ultimately passed by Democrats in both chambers of the state legislature over the course of the past two years, would alter Article 1, Section 11 of the New York Constitution, which presently states that no person shall be subjected to any discrimination in his or her civil rights by any other person, firm, corporation, institution, or by the state on the basis of race, color, creed, or religion.
This effort would add that New Yorkers — now to be conferred plural pronouns contra “his or her” — cannot be discriminated against on the basis of ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, “gender identity,” “gender expression,” pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive health care and autonomy.
The ERA has been championed by various leftists, LGBT organizations, and pro-abortion outfits.
