URGENT! Public Hearing on proposed Clinic Access Law Monday, December 12, 7:30 p.m.

Re: Local Law adding Chapter 425 "Reproductive Health Care Facilities Access Act"

A Public Hearing has been called for Monday night, December 12, at the County Board of Legislators Michaelian Building, 148 Martine Avenue at Court Street, 8th floor, White Plains, NY.

Some of you will be receiving calls. We need your support to attend this hearing, to submit written or e-mailed comments, and to speak at the hearing on this attempt to pass a new "Local Law" that tries to initimidate pro-life, 1st Amendment-protected speech at abortion clinics. The proposed law threatens pro-life witness with the expanded ability for lawsuits by the clinics; exhorbitant fines and extended jail terms for protestors.

Remember, no laws have been broken in 15 years; no woman has been prevented from receiving an abortion, if she so wishes. There is no legal basis for this new law, a heavy-handed expansion of already existing state and federal laws to address abortion access concerns. Warnings about potential legal problems with this new law's constitutionality have fallen on deaf ears at the BofL in an attempt to get this passed quickly before the veto-proof supermajority of the current Board is ended.

The law's sponsors are Legislators Myers and Shimsky. This legislation also seeks to regulate a 200-foot area from parking lots and bus stops and limit to 25 feet any approach of individuals entering abortion clinics. No other group that legally protests or shares information on public streets in the County (think unions; think politicians handing out literature) experiences this type of regulation that is really "strangulation" and outright discrimination!

E-mail us at [email protected] if you can come. Call your County Legislator or write and submit to the Board and Public Hearing your objections to this outrageous piece of legislation.

We'll give you details, and you can read the proposed "Local Law" yourself. Check out videotapes at joint Legislation and Community Service Committee meetings on this legislation at the County Board of Legislators' website, too.

Your action and support is critical!

 

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