Part of the crowd that attended last Saturday’s rally in Yonkers to support Proposition 1. The proposition would add a host of categories for protection from discrimination to the state’s constitution.
A wide range of high-profile Democrats rallied last weekend in support of New York’s Equal Rights Amendment, arguing that the proposition on next month’s ballot would protect a larger swath of the population.
Proposition 1 would extend protections in the state constitution against unequal treatment to include ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes and reproductive healthcare and autonomy. Currently, the state constitution offers protections based on race, creed, color or religion.
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THE EXAMINER NEWS - OCT. 1, 2024
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