The 2024 ballot initiative comes as a wave of states attempt to expand abortion access by amending their constitutions following the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
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CNA Staff, Dec 26, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA).
New Yorkers will be voting next November on a proposal to enshrine abortion rights into their state constitution.The vote comes as a wave of states attempt to expand abortion.
Father Fidelis Moscinski (lower left, standing behind the cross), a well-known pro-life activist and priest of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (CFR) is seen during a tense standoff between pro-life and pro-abortion demonstrators in Lower Manhattan on July 2, 2022. The pro-life marchers were trying to reach a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic where they planned to hold a prayer vigil, and the pro-abortion demonstrators were trying to block their path. / Jeffrey Bruno/CNAWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 24, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).A Catholic priest who blocked access to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic could face up to one year in prison after being found guilty Monday of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, also known as the FACE Act. On the morning of July 7, 2022, Father Fidelis Moscinski, 52, a priest of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, effectively shut down the Planned Parenthood of Greater New York clinic in Hempstead for about two .