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02/06/2025

10/01/2024

Vote YES on NYS Prop 1 - the Equal Rights Amendment. It puts abortion protection into the state constitution. It closes loopholes to make sure that no New Yorker can be discriminated against. In addition to protecting abortion rights, it elevates access to all reproductive health care including contraception and IVF, and protect older New Yorkers, those with disabilities, and the LGBT community. It is taking the NYS Human Rights Law and putting those protections into the NYS Constitution - and contrary to what the opposition's propaganda, Prop 1 is totally consistent with the federal Title IX and NYS Human Rights Laws. States must comply with federal legislation. Signed into law in 1972 by President Richard Nixon, Title IX “prohibits discrimination based on s*x in education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance.” Women have benefited beyond anyone’s wildest dreams from Title IX, and will continue to! So Turn The Ballot Over And VOTE YES ON PROP 1!

09/22/2024

https://www.lohud.com/story/opinion/2024/09/20/opinion-yes-there-are-pro-choice-ny-republicans-gina-arena-isnt/75253734007/

On Nov. 5, New Yorkers have the opportunity to stand up against discrimination and for equality and abortion rights. We must seize the moment.

09/16/2024

https://wclapac.org/candidates/ Learn who is Pro-Choice and who is NOT - and who WCLA PAC has ENDORSED and who they have NOT!

06/29/2024

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06/14/2024

92 Assembly District - Greenburgh, Mt Pleassant, Yonkers -
NYS Assembly District 92
(Mount Pleasant, northern Yonkers, most of Greenburgh)
Two candidates – Tom Abinanti and MaryJane Shimsky – are running for election to the Assembly. Abinanti is seeking to reclaim his seat, lost to Shimsky two years ago.

Both candidates are rated 100% Pro-Choice by Choice Matters.
Tom Abinanti has played a unique role in our pro-choice history.

Abinanti served on the WCLA – Choice Matters Board and as our pro bono attorney for 12 years. He provided his time and legal counsel without hesitation. His counsel helped this organization become the powerhouse it is today.

Among his many pro-choice actions and votes, Abinanti was an original sponsor of Westchester’s Safe Clinic Access Bill while serving as County Legislator. Abinanti also co-sponsored and voted for the Reproductive Health Act and the NYS Equal Rights Amendment.
MaryJane Shimsky, while serving as County Legislator, co-sponsored the Westchester Reproductive Health Care Facilities Act, the only bill of its kind in the nation. County Executive Latimer signed it into law on June 27, 2022. Shimsky is a member of the NYS Bipartisan Pro-Choice Legislative Caucus.
R**e Is R**e Act
Both Abinanti and Shimsky are supporters of the legislation R**e Is R**e Act that became law.

As an ardent careful legislator, Abinanti worked to make necessary changes to the original versions of the bill. Governor Hochul required many of those changes to be incorporated before signing the bill. Shimsky voted for the bill in its final form.
The Focus of this 2024 Primary is NOT Abortion Rights
But it is just about as local as local gets.

This Primary revolves completely around legislation allowing Greenburgh’s wealthy enclave of Edgemont to incorporate (allowing portions of a town to become a village) at the expense of the rest of unincorporated Greenburgh. (Impact studies.)

The new law, sponsored by Shimsky, Assembly Bill A7761 (2023), allows Edgemont to form its own village, which could result in skyrocketing property taxes and far fewer services for the rest of those in unincorporated Greenburgh. Abinanti is an outspoken opponent of this legislation.

The original incorporation legislation has its roots in Jim Crow.

Incorporation in NYS law was adopted to keep villages white, only allowing residents of the designated “village” area to vote. Still today, despite the impact on the rest of unincorporated Greenburgh residents, only Edgemont residents will be permitted to vote on incorporation.

Disclosure: Several members of the Choice Matters’ board, past and present, live in unincorporated Greenburgh.

05/15/2024

This is an in-office position and you MUST be unequivocally pro-choice!

05/10/2024

There are three candidates running for the office of Westchester County District Attorney in the Democratic Primary. Choice Matters interviewed each of them in depth and reviewed their individual questionnaires.

Choice Matters has rated two of the candidates — William Wagstaff and Susan Cacace — 100% PRO-CHOICE. Choice Matters has rated the third candidate, Adeel Mirza, — ANTI-CHOICE.

Whereas Wagstaff and Cacace present different visions for the office they are seeking, seeing their responsibilities and the people they would represent differently, there is no question that both candidates grasp the dramatic role the District Attorney’s office will be called upon to play in this horrific time of every-increasing violence against providers, staff, patients and reproductive healthcare facilities.

The same cannot be said of Adeel Mirza who has demonstrated a callous indifference to, and serious lack of knowledge of federal, state and County legislation pertaining to the right to access comprehensive reproductive health care in New York and the securing of safe access. Further, Mirza has stated unequivocally that he would hire and appoint anti-choice assistant district attorneys (ADA) who could serve as prosecutors in clinic invasion cases, claiming they would be equally able to apply the law.

This level of ignorance is dangerous. Across the country we have witnessed DAs and ADAs enforcing laws as they saw fit, winning and losing cases based on their own personal biases.

Candidates running for office, particularly on the Democratic line, have learned the power of claiming to be pro-choice. But simply saying so does not make it true. Look at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — or Jeannine Pirro or Virginia Perez or Robert Castelli, to name a few. All claimed to be pro-choice until they didn’t. Mirza is no different. His false claim plays a prominent role in his literature. While we may never know whether the s*xual assault charges against him were true because he has chosen to settle the case just a few days ago, we do know that he is definitely not pro-choice.

Please remember, just as you can’t be a little bit pregnant, you can’t be a little pro-choice.

In this Democratic Primary, please vote for either William Wagstaff or Susan Cacace. Take the time to learn their positions on the responsibilities of the Westchester County District Attorney’s office.

WCLA PAC is not endorsing in this race because neither of the candidates rated 100% Pro-Choice has a record of pro-choice accomplishments, yet.

*RFK JR: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/22/rfk-jr-abortion-mixed-signals/