EXPANSION OF ABORTION 

Sponsor: A. Gottfried; Bill # A.2205 - oppose

This bill would authorize physician assistants under the supervision of a physician to perform most medical services that such physician can perform. As it becomes ever clearer to the public that abortion ends a human life, the numbers of obstetricians willing to perform abortions has understandably diminished. This bill must be amended to exclude abortion so as not to open a new door for abortion clinics to recruit abortionists. The New York State Department of Health also stated in the past it has serious reservations as to whether a physician assistant would have the appropriate skills to perform an abortion, or respond to possible complications. This bill further reveals the pro-abortion goal of protecting abortion even at the clear expense of women.

Sponsor: A. Glick; Bill # A.5441 - oppose

This bill provides that hospitals which offer medical residency training in obstetrics, gynecology, internal medicine, women's health and osteopathy must provide abortion training. Where a residency program itself has a religious, moral or legal restriction which prohibits residents from performing abortions within the institution, such residency programs must ensure that residents in their program who do not have a religious or moral objection receive education and experience in performing abortion at another institution. Therefore, residency programs which have moral or legal objections to performing abortions must still provide abortion training for their residents - only by outsourcing it instead.

Sponsor: A. Glick; Bill # A.1948 - oppose

An act to amend the insurance law, forcing that provision be made for abortion coverage in every individual or group policy or contract which provides coverage or indemnity for hospital, surgical or medical care, and which offers maternity care coverage. Abortion is not health care. There should be no mandated coverage.