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   On 30 Jul 2024, Popping Mad  posted some   
   news:v8ah7d$ohj$3@reader1.panix.com:   
      
   > NY’s faux ‘abortion amendment’ is a sneak attack on parents’   
   > rights and free speech   
   > By Social Links forWai Wah Chin   
   > Published July 28, 2024, 6:59 p.m. ET   
   >   
   > 54 Comments   
   >   
   > New Yorkers are set to vote on the controversial “Equal Protection   
   > of Law Amendment” in November.   
   > New Yorkers are set to vote on the controversial "Equal Protection of   
   > Law Amendment" in November.   
   > Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images   
   > New York’s so-called “Equal Protection of Law Amendment” is   
   > headed for November’s ballot after a tortuous journey through the   
   > courts.   
   >   
   > On Friday, public comments on what will be listed as Proposition One   
   > closed, and the state Board of Elections moved to finalize its   
   > language.   
   >   
   > But as we can expect from Democrats — remember the deceptively named   
   > federal “Inflation Reduction Act”? — this “Equal Protection”   
   > law is anything but.   
   >   
   > The left is marketing Proposition One as critically necessary to   
   > protect abortion rights in New York after the Supreme Court’s 2022   
   > Dobbs decision.   
   >   
   > But contrary to the fear-mongering, Dobbs did not ban abortion: It   
   > merely reminded the nation that the Constitution says nothing about   
   > abortion’s legality — leaving states free to decide their own   
   > laws.   
   >   
   > And New York state needs more abortion protection like the Sahara   
   > Desert needs more sand.   
   >   
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   > Biden’s illegitimate ‘reforms’ are a nakedly political bid to   
   > tilt the Supreme Court on his way out   
   > A new study found that universal basic income actually left recipients   
   > with less money.   
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   > The left’s painting Biden as a monster for not dropping out — but   
   > Joe’s just being Joe   
   > New York enshrined legal abortion statewide with bipartisan support in   
   > 1970 — three years before Roe v. Wade — and reinforced it more   
   > recently.   
   >   
   > Those state laws are not affected by Dobbs one smidgen.   
   >   
   > The truth is that Prop. One originated as Democratic Party red meat   
   > for the November election.   
   >   
   > Democrats learned that Dobbs alarmism really works to drive their   
   > voter turnout, especially with affluent white female liberals.   
   >   
   > It paid off beautifully for Gov. Hochul in New York’s surprisingly   
   > competitive 2022 gubernatorial race.   
   >   
   > see also   
   > Hundreds protest a Trump administration announcement this week that   
   > rescinds an Obama-era order allowing transgender students to use   
   > school bathrooms matching their gender identities, at the Stonewall   
   > Inn on February 23, 2017 in New York City   
   > Critics blast NY’s proposed ‘Equal Rights Amendment’ they say   
   > strips parents of their rights over kids’ transgender surgery   
   > So for 2024, Democrats splattered proposals and referenda purporting   
   > to “protect abortion” on election ballots in more than half a   
   > dozen states nationwide, including New York.   
   >   
   > Here, though, Democrats took the opportunity to range far beyond   
   > abortion paranoia.   
   >   
   > If Prop. One were really about protecting abortion, one simple   
   > sentence would suffice: “Every individual who becomes pregnant has   
   > the fundamental right to choose to carry the pregnancy to term, to   
   > give birth to a child, or to have an abortion.”   
   >   
   > That’s verbatim from the state public-health law already on the   
   > books in New York.   
   >   
   > But this “abortion” amendment reads nothing like that   
   > straightforward sentence.   
   >   
   > Instead, it aims to add superfluous abortion protections — while   
   > making breathtakingly sweeping changes to state anti-discrimination   
   > statutes that have nothing to do with abortion.   
   >   
   > Prop. One’s Section A adds a whopping 11 new categories to the   
   > existing protections against discrimination on the basis of race,   
   > color, creed and religion.   
   >   
   > Only two of them touch abortion.   
   >   
   > But four of the new categories — sexual orientation, gender   
   > identity, gender expression and age — expand existing law to   
   > enshrine transgender minor “rights” in the state Constitution.   
   >   
   > Alert parents instantly recognize these code words for what they mean   
   > in our schools right now: The left is coming after our children.   
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   > So while parents in other states can still fight on school boards and   
   > in courtrooms against boys in girls’ bathrooms, against weak boys   
   > stealing sports medals from strong girls, against manipulative   
   > in-school “acceptance and belonging” lessons and more, New York   
   > parents will be powerless if Proposition One passes.   
   >   
   > Here, parents will have no recourse — and may actually be criminally   
   > liable for hate speech if they voice their objections.   
   >   
   > Meanwhile, Section B is the proposition’s knock-out punch.   
   >   
   > It says any and all of the discriminations banned in Section A are   
   > permitted if such discrimination is done to “prevent or dismantle”   
   > another discrimination.   
   >   
   > It basically adds to the state Constitution that much-ridiculed quote   
   > from racism trafficker Ibram X. Kendi: “The only remedy to past   
   > discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present   
   > discrimination is future discrimination.”   
   >   
   > The section would institute reverse discrimination in any imaginable   
   > category — just fabricate some past discriminatory grievance, and   
   > voila, discrimination to “undo it” becomes legal.   
   >   
   > And the language is exceedingly broad, covering “any law,   
   > regulation, program, or practice” — so almost anyone in government   
   > can reverse-discriminate, unchecked and unopposable, via a “program   
   > or practice.”   
   >   
   > Examples? The sky’s the limit.   
   >   
   > A tax commissioner could exempt black New Yorkers from paying income   
   > taxes, as Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) has suggested.   
   >   
   > A district attorney could decide a case based not on its merits, but   
   > to correct for alleged past racial “over-prosecution” of others,   
   > along the lines of California Penal Code 745.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > A schools chancellor could eliminate the city’s race-blind,   
   > meritocratic specialized high schools, which have been falsely accused   
   > of past discrimination.   
   >   
   > Prop. One started out as a sordid electioneering ploy on abortion,   
   > then became a sleazy bait-and-switch — not about abortion, not about   
   > equal protection, but about destroying parental rights and free   
   > speech.   
   >   
   > And to top it all, it legalizes a cornucopia of reverse   
   > discrimination.   
   >   
   > Prop. One belongs in the trash heap of bad legislation — and in   
   > November, voters should toss it there for good.   
   >   
   > Wai Wah Chin is the founding president of the Chinese American   
      
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