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  • 2015-04-15 (xsd:date)
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  • Did New York Pass an Abortion Bill Allowing Shooting Babies Through the Heart with Poison? (en)
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  • On 25 March 2015, the web site LifeNews published an article headlined New York Assembly Passes Bill Allowing Shooting Babies Through the Heart with Poison to Kill Them. According to that article, lawmakers in New York State had just passed a bill that would promote late-term abortions in the Empire State. The article declared that the bill would somehow expand the legality or frequency of third-trimester abortions and stated that the recent legislative actions would allow abortions effected by shooting poison through the hearts of unborn children to kill them. The article did not cite the text or function of the legislation in question in support of the former claim, nor did it reference any medical terminology or procedure in support of the second claim: The following day, the blog BuzzPo repeated LifeNews's claims and enhanced the rumor by describing a hypothetical scenario under which a third trimester abortion could putatively occur: Unsurprisingly, the rumors about New York state's purported expansion of abortion law shocked and angered many readers, but they didn't align with the reality of any bill actually passed by the New York legislature. In his 2013 State of the State address, New York governor Andrew Cuomo proposed a 10-point Women's Equality Agenda, the tenth point of which sought to bring New York state law regarding abortions in alignment with the federal protections provided by Roe v. Wade: The Women's Equality Agenda was not voted on as a whole by the state legislature: Each point was offered in a separate bill, and the bill dealing with the tenth point (AB 6221) was passed on 17 March 2015. Nothing in the text of that bill allows an abortion procedure that has abortionists shooting poison through the hearts of unborn children to kill them, expands third-trimester abortions, or allows non-doctors to perform abortions. Instead, it merely codified provisions of Roe v. Wade into New York State law: (en)
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