Pro-choice group responds with TV ad backing Kennedy (NY)

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Pro-choice group responds with TV ad backing Kennedy
By Robert J. McCarthy | News Political Reporter
on March 18, 2014 - 8:57 PM

After a pro-life group last week sponsored radio ads slamming State Sen. Timothy M. Kennedy’s new support for abortion rights, one of the state’s leading pro-choice organizations responds on local television today by lauding his backing for a woman’s right “to make her own private health care decisions with dignity.”

NARAL Pro-Choice New York launches the ads today to “clarify” the Women’s Equality Act proposed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and expected to be considered by the Legislature this spring.

“New Yorkers don’t appreciate being manipulated and lied to by opponents of the Women’s Equality Act,” said Andrea Miller, president of NARAL Pro-Choice New York. “Anti-choice extremists and their allies in the State Legislature spent a year spreading blatant mistruths about this landmark legislation. But New Yorkers didn’t bite — they have made clear, time and again, that they believe in protecting women’s health and enshrining the right to choose in our state law.”

The pro-choice group also features Kennedy, a Buffalo Democrat, on its web site this week as one of its “awesome” legislators as it tracks lawmakers’ positions on the “10th point” of the proposed legislation. Its new ad also singles out Kennedy as an abortion rights champion.... MORE