"Coalition for Reproductive Life"

New York's status as a solidly pro-choice state tends to be taken for granted by politicians from both parties, including those now trying to push through the Reproductive Health Act (S5808). I haven't seen good polling data about the extent to which public opinion in this state has shared the national trend of moving in a pro-life direction, but there is apparently some political organizing going on. 

Comments

[Brian]

I refuse to use the phrase "pro-life" because most (not all) people who describe themselves as such support pro-death causes like the forms of state murder euphemistically referred to as war or the death penalty.

[Bob Conner]

I, contrariwise, do not describe either abortion, the death penalty or war as murder, although I oppose the first two and sometimes the latter, too. We live in a more-or-less democratic country governed by laws, which define what murder is, and legal actions performed by abortionists, executioners or soldiers do not amount to murder. Further, unless one is a pacifist, one concedes that wars are sometimes necessary. I do not think one should imply that U.S. soldiers (as opposed to Nazi SS troops) are murderers.