New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins says abortion is 'not only an issue of health and reproductive and bodily autonomy, but it plays into every other thing, whether it's the economy, your ability to be able to plan a future.'
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.While the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to toss out Roe v. Wade was widely anticipated that Friday morning in June, it still managed to shock the nation and the state.,” and we had booked New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins to discussThen the news broke that Roe was overturned while one of the state’s most powerful Democrats was on the air.
Oh my goodness. Well, you know, as the Senate leader — and so many colleagues who were just so upset — I wound up, of course, having multiple conversations with so many people, but mostly reassuring people in New York, women of New York, that we still have legalized abortion because I think that was just such a scary decision that people really were concerned about what it was that what happened to us here and beyond.
We always talk about each election being the most crucial election; certainly this one is because how we vote now is really going to determine the future of democracy in general. And we have just become extremely polarized. So I cannot tell you exactly what's driving this, but these are national elections now that are being played out on a local level.
Majority Leader, it's interesting that you raised the issue of crime. In that same poll, while they found an overwhelming majority of voters do think abortion should be legal, only 42% said that they wouldvote for a candidate that agrees with them on that issue. And 48% said they could vote for a candidate who disagrees with them on abortion, but agrees with them on other issues.
The other thing I want to say is that we've managed to take care of the issues that people are concerned about, whether it's the pocketbook issues. When I say take care of it, I mean, we are doing our part.
I played a clip of Hochul's opponent, [Rep.] Lee Zeldin. He has said he would potentially appoint a health commissioner who opposes abortion. He is saying that he could not and would not change New York's laws on abortion. Can you fact check that for us? How hard it would be to roll back some of the abortion laws in New York from the governor's seat?
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