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Save the Life Centers by Opposing NYC's Local Law 17-2011
This petition was published by Chris Slattery on Dec 18, 2010
After a 39-9-1 vote on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 in favor of the revised Bill #371A, by the 51 member NY City Council, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, signed the Bill into Local Law 17-2011, on March 16th, 2011.
We urge the pro-life community to help expose the injustice of this law, and to join our efforts to overturn this unconstitutional assault on our 1st and 14th Amendment rights through our lawsuit filed in the Federal Southern District Court in lower Manhattan.
The new NYC "Pregnancy Services Center" Local Law-17-2011:
1. Is An Assault on the FIRST AMENDMENT, EQUAL PROTECTION AND DUE PROCESS RIGHTS OF "Pregnancy Services Centers, (PSCs) RUN BY EQUAL CITIZENS whose rights will be flagrantly violated by this new law
(Two proofs: A FEDERAL JUDGE STRUCK DOWN A SIMILAR Signage Law IN BALTIMORE ON JAN. 28, 2011, BECAUSE IT VIOLATED THE FIRST AMENDMENT, and another FEDERAL JUDGE STRUCK DOWN, on March 15th, 2011, LARGE PARTS OF ANOTHER SIMILAR LAW IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD, WHICH ALSO IMPOSED SIGNAGE RESTRICTIONS ON PREGNANCY CENTERS.)
2. WAS BASED ON NO RECORDED COMPLAINTS in the city records, and no PSC has ever been the target of a single lawsuit in New York City history. (The same cannot be said of the abortion industry, with hundreds of recorded deaths and lawsuits against abortion providers over the past four decades. New York City and State have never moved to pass legislation to protect women from unscrupulous and incompetent abortion providers.)
3. HOLDS IN CONTEMPT THE GREAT FREE SERVICES OF ALL NYC pregnancy centers, all 23 sites, which give tens of thousands of annual hours of selfless staff and volunteer time. They provide needy women and girls thousands of referrals for emergency and long-term housing, job placement, adoption services, food and material supplies, immigration and legal aid, as well as emotional, spiritual, and therapeutic support, rarely, if ever, offered by abortionists.
(EMC FrontLine appears to have been uniquely targeted in the FINAL LOCAL LAW 17-2011 because among all the pregnancy centers in NYC it has been the only group to offer free ultrasounds and on site pre-natal care, in numerous locations, and, uniquely, some of its sites are located near, or in the same building as abortion facilities.)
4. REJECTS A TRUE CHOICE FOR WOMEN IN CRISIS by ATTACKING Life centers who provide subsidized, and early access to pre-natal care, crisis counseling, and material resources for women in need, giving them the chance to choose Life over abortion.
5. IGNORES THE SCORES OF NYC ABORTION MILLS WHICH DO NOT POST RISKS OR ADVERTISE the many scientifically verified complications of abortion***
6. PROTECTS CHILD PREDATORS, RAPISTS, and CHILD TRAFFICKING CRIMINALS who cannot, in most cases, be turned in to public authorities under this LAW, due to flaws in the Confidentiality requirements section.
*** Approximately 10% of women undergoing elective abortion will suffer immediate complications: of which approximately one-fifth are considered life threatening. The nine most common major complications which can occur at the time of an abortion are: infection, excessive bleeding, embolism, ripping or perforation of the uterus, anesthesia complications, convulsions, hemorrhage, cervical injury, and endotoxic shock. The most common "minor" complications include: infection, bleeding, fever, second-degree burns, chronic abdominal pain, vomiting, gastro-intestinal disturbances, and Rh sensitization.
We urge the pro-life community to help expose the injustice of this law, and to join our efforts to overturn this unconstitutional assault on our 1st and 14th Amendment rights through our lawsuit filed in the Federal Southern District Court in lower Manhattan.
The new NYC "Pregnancy Services Center" Local Law-17-2011:
1. Is An Assault on the FIRST AMENDMENT, EQUAL PROTECTION AND DUE PROCESS RIGHTS OF "Pregnancy Services Centers, (PSCs) RUN BY EQUAL CITIZENS whose rights will be flagrantly violated by this new law
(Two proofs: A FEDERAL JUDGE STRUCK DOWN A SIMILAR Signage Law IN BALTIMORE ON JAN. 28, 2011, BECAUSE IT VIOLATED THE FIRST AMENDMENT, and another FEDERAL JUDGE STRUCK DOWN, on March 15th, 2011, LARGE PARTS OF ANOTHER SIMILAR LAW IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD, WHICH ALSO IMPOSED SIGNAGE RESTRICTIONS ON PREGNANCY CENTERS.)
2. WAS BASED ON NO RECORDED COMPLAINTS in the city records, and no PSC has ever been the target of a single lawsuit in New York City history. (The same cannot be said of the abortion industry, with hundreds of recorded deaths and lawsuits against abortion providers over the past four decades. New York City and State have never moved to pass legislation to protect women from unscrupulous and incompetent abortion providers.)
3. HOLDS IN CONTEMPT THE GREAT FREE SERVICES OF ALL NYC pregnancy centers, all 23 sites, which give tens of thousands of annual hours of selfless staff and volunteer time. They provide needy women and girls thousands of referrals for emergency and long-term housing, job placement, adoption services, food and material supplies, immigration and legal aid, as well as emotional, spiritual, and therapeutic support, rarely, if ever, offered by abortionists.
(EMC FrontLine appears to have been uniquely targeted in the FINAL LOCAL LAW 17-2011 because among all the pregnancy centers in NYC it has been the only group to offer free ultrasounds and on site pre-natal care, in numerous locations, and, uniquely, some of its sites are located near, or in the same building as abortion facilities.)
4. REJECTS A TRUE CHOICE FOR WOMEN IN CRISIS by ATTACKING Life centers who provide subsidized, and early access to pre-natal care, crisis counseling, and material resources for women in need, giving them the chance to choose Life over abortion.
5. IGNORES THE SCORES OF NYC ABORTION MILLS WHICH DO NOT POST RISKS OR ADVERTISE the many scientifically verified complications of abortion***
6. PROTECTS CHILD PREDATORS, RAPISTS, and CHILD TRAFFICKING CRIMINALS who cannot, in most cases, be turned in to public authorities under this LAW, due to flaws in the Confidentiality requirements section.
*** Approximately 10% of women undergoing elective abortion will suffer immediate complications: of which approximately one-fifth are considered life threatening. The nine most common major complications which can occur at the time of an abortion are: infection, excessive bleeding, embolism, ripping or perforation of the uterus, anesthesia complications, convulsions, hemorrhage, cervical injury, and endotoxic shock. The most common "minor" complications include: infection, bleeding, fever, second-degree burns, chronic abdominal pain, vomiting, gastro-intestinal disturbances, and Rh sensitization.
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