“We must eliminate restrictions that would criminalize women who suffer a miscarriage at home, protect the rights of women to access safe and legal abortion, and protect the medical professionals providing access to women’s reproductive care,” El-Behairy said. “According to the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), seven out of ten New Yorkers across political and religious lines support the Reproductive Health Act, which respects women’s right to control their own bodies and make choices that are best for them and their families. And yet Chris Jacobs, the current District 60 Senator, voted with the Republican majority against releasing this bill from the Senate Health Committee to the floor for a vote.” El-Behairy, who serves on the board of her local Planned Parenthood affiliate, is a longtime supporter of a woman’s right to choose and supports access to quality healthcare—particularly for women. When elected, the progressive Democrat will work to ensure that state law protects New Yorkers from potentially disastrous federal actions. “New York State has the opportunity to protect a woman’s right to choose,” El-Behairy said. “In the event Roe is overturned, the passage of the Reproductive Health Act would ensure that a woman in New York is able to choose the best course of action regarding her personal healthcare decisions, including electing to have a child or to end a pregnancy.” The act would update New York State’s existing pre-Roe laws by amending the penal law, the criminal procedure law, the county law, and the judiciary law, and put abortion—a medical procedure—into the health code where it belongs. El-Behairy is a small business owner with a record of service to the region’s arts, education, and health organizations. She is running on a platform of quality education, particularly universal pre-K, healthcare access and affordability, election reform, and economic development with preservation. El-Behairy is the endorsed Democratic candidate for New York State Senate, District 60.]]>
El-Behairy Supports Cuomo’s Executive Order, Urges Jacobs and New York Senate to Pass Reproductive Health Act
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Pete Hegseth’s ‘worn out’ MAGA excuse is running out of steam: ex-White House insider
Pete Hegseth’s reliance on using a Donald Trump deflection as allegations of incompetence, criminality and Pentagon infighting continue to grow is starting to wear thin, according to one former Trump White House insider.
The embattled Secretary of Defense is fighting a war on two fronts this week as he fends off accusations of war crimes over the killing of two alleged drug boat survivors who were reportedly clinging to their boat after a U.S. military attack.
At the same time, a damning report from the Pentagon Inspector General (IG) stated that the Pentagon chief violated protocols with his use of the Signal app, which endangered U.S. troops during an assault on Houthi rebels.
According to a report from Jack Detsh of Politico, in order to fend off bad press and investigations into his conduct, the former Fox News personality has been taking a page out of Trump’s MAGA playbook, by criticizing the messenger and not addressing the issues head-on.
As Detch wrote, Hegseth’s strategy can be summed up as, “Attack your enemies, revamp your story and never say you got it wrong.”
Add to that, Hegseth has been quick to fall back on calling anything that portrays him in a bad light as “fake news.”
As the report notes, that may work for Trump, but it’s being overused by the Pentagon chief, who has already has a trust deficit with many less-than-supportive Republican lawmakers.
According to a former senior Trump adviser, “There’s only so many times that you can stand next to the president and label everything as fake news and deny everything. It’s worn out.”
The same official also claimed the strategy doesn’t work for the defense secretary because of his reputation.
“When he takes this approach of, ‘this is fake news,’ and then hits back with some type of a troll…that only reinforces his biggest liability, which is that he’s unqualified for the job,” they explained. “That just reinforces that he’s not serious.”
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