{"id":5945,"date":"2005-06-23T08:10:02","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T13:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/06\/23\/pill-bill\/"},"modified":"2005-06-23T08:10:02","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T13:10:02","slug":"pill-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/06\/pill-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Pill Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">ALBANY &#8211; The state Senate passed a bill that would let New York women get so-called &quot;morning after&quot; pills without a prescription &#8211; sending the controversial issue to Gov. Pataki.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">The Democratic-controlled Assembly already had approved the emergency contraception measure, but pro-choice advocates had been worried about the bill&#8217;s fate in the Republican-controlled Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Senate GOP Leader Joe Bruno (R-Rensselaer), however, allowed it on the floor, and the bill passed 34-27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Pataki aides said the governor would study the measure. Given his generally pro-choice record, advocates said they were hopeful he&#8217;ll sign it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;This is a triumph of science over politics,&quot; said Kelly Conlin of the National Abortion Rights Action League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">The Catholic Conference, led by Edward Cardinal Egan, is vehemently opposed to the legislation, which it noted carries no age restriction for those who want to get the pills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;The senators would authorize the use of young girls as guinea pigs,&quot; said Dennis Poust, Catholic Conference spokesman. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/story\/321663p-275059c.html\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Surprisingly the headline for this article was &quot;Abort pill bill heads to gov.&quot; Pray for Gov. Pataki that for once he might actually follow his Catholic faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY &#8211; The state Senate passed a bill that would let New York women get so-called &quot;morning after&quot; pills without a prescription &#8211; sending the controversial issue to Gov. Pataki.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}