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Abortion Debate Continues on Albany (Source: YNN)

Andrea Stewart-Cousins

May 6, 2013

    ISSUE:
  • Women's Health
  • Women

Source: YNN

But Senate Democratic Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins believes an abortion rights bill can pass and will gain Republican support, pointing out that the state's original abortion law did receive GOP backing. Stewart-Cousins said, “When we passed the bill that allowed for abortion in 1970, we had Republican votes. I believe we will have Republican votes.”

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