New York, Vote NO on Proposal 1

Stop the Parent Replacement Act

Prop 1 will end Girls’ Sports and Women’s Safe Spaces

And Much, Much more

Flip your ballot over and Vote “NO”

New Yorkers must vote NO to stop Proposal 1 (Prop 1). Prop 1 is a direct threat to parents’ ability to raise our children, or even know what is being done to our children.  

Proposal 1 is a stealth strategy to allow the New York Courts to create entire new realms of new law and rewrite many existing laws without any interference from you or our elected representatives. 

The language of Prop 1 is deliberately vague and undefined. Proposal 1 will open the door to a whole range of radical new court decisions to put in place policies much desired by Prop 1 supporters but who have been unable to get bills through the legislative process. 

This new vague language will create a flood of lawsuits that give the courts the power to overturn or re-interpret many longstanding laws that were passed through the democratic process, not politically appointed judges' decisions. 

The authors of Prop 1, Assemblymember Rebecca Seawright (D-East Midtown) and State Senator Liz Krueger (D-East Midtown) when asked what Prop 1 will do, say that it will all be determined by the Courts.  The final judge of all legal disputes in New York is the Court of Appeals, where every judge was appointed by either Governor Andrew Cuomo or Governor Kathy Hochul.

Proposal 1 rewrites the New York State Constitution by adding the following language in underlined, italic and in bold:

§ 11. a. No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws of this state or any subdivision thereof. No person shall, because of race, color, ethnicity,  national origin, age, disability, creed [or], religion, or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy,  pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy, be subjected to any discrimination in [his or her] their civil rights by any other person or by any firm, corporation, or institution, or by the state or any agency or subdivision of the state, pursuant to law.

b. Nothing in this section shall invalidate or prevent the adoption of any law, regulation, program, or practice that is designed to prevent or dismantle discrimination on the basis of a characteristic listed in this section,  nor shall any characteristic listed in this section be interpreted to interfere with, limit, or deny the civil rights of any  person based upon any other characteristic identified in this section.

Proposal 1 is unnecessary. The New York State Human Rights Law already prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability and marital status. As a law, it can be changed by the legislative process, the intention of Prop1 is to take these decisions out of the Democratic process and give the power to unelected judges.

Parent’s Rights will be assaulted, Under Prop 1 any distinction in law based on “age” could become illegal discrimination.  Courts would be empowered to allow medical procedures and products, including life-altering, irreversible medical procedures, to be performed on minors without parental consent. This effectively removes parents from crucial decision-making about their children's health and well-being.

Children with Autism will be especially vulnerable, Currently 40% of all minors receiving medical procedures intend to alter their appearance to that of the opposite sex also have a diagnosis of ASD. New York Schools already have claimed the authority to change children’s names and pronouns, and tell children that the healthy bodies they were born with are fundamentally flawed, without parents’ knowledge or consent.  What will passage of Prop 1 allow?

Girls’ and Women’s sports will end, Prop 1 could also allow the Courts to mandate that schools allow biological males to compete in girls' sports, which undermines fair competition, opportunities, and safety for female athletes​.

Girls’ and Women’s Safe spaces will end, Restrooms, locker rooms, sleeping quarters at camps, dormitories, abused women’s shelters, single sex schools and colleges will be held discriminatory.

Age of Consent and statutory rape could be changed to any age by the courts. The age of consent in New York is currently 18. But powerful forces are seeking to lower that age to allow adults greater access to children for sexual purposes. 

Religious organizations could be sued for teaching and practicing their beliefs, The NY Human Rights Law includes an exemption for religious institutions to allow “taking such action as is calculated by such organization to promote the religious principles for which it is established or maintained.” Sec 296, 11.

No such exemption is included in the language proposed by Prop 1. The Constitution trumps statutes, so we may fully expect to see litigation challenging religious organizations’ right to hold beliefs about human sexuality, marriage, family, or anything else, that differs from whatever the courts will determine in the future. 

Medical professionals could be forced to perform acts they believe are immoral. Current NY law allows medical professionals to refuse to perform medical procedures they find objectionable on religious grounds. Clearly, those rights would be challenged in Prop 1 passes.

Our elites cannot define “sex” or “woman” anymore Not long ago everybody knew what the words “sex” and “woman” meant. Now we have a Justice of the Supreme Court who said in her confirmation hearing, with a straight face, that she could not say what a “woman”” is because she is not a biologist. How can women’s rights be defended by jurists who cannot define “woman?”

Albany cannot define “gender identity” but wants to make it a protected class. All legislation begins with definitions of the terms used in the proposed law. In 2019, when Albany passed the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), “gender identity” was defined as, ‘The  term "gender identity or expression" means a person's actual or perceived gender-related identity,’ This is the equivalent of, “The meaning of “dog” is “dog.”  Most of us know by 4th grade that a word cannot be defined using the same word in the definition. But not our legislature. The result gives the Court free rein to define “gender” and other terms included in Prop 1 however they wish. 

Prop One authors are extreme enemies of parents Prop 1 Senate sponsor Liz Krueger (D-East Midtown is the author of S6103 which would allow 14-year-olds to be given any vaccine without parental consent. Assembly sponsor, Assemblymember Rebecca Seawright)is a sponsor of Assembly bill A6761 which would allow ANY medical procedure to be done to a child without parental knowledge or consent.

Prop 1 does not mention “abortion.” Prop 1 proponents claim that Prop1 is necessary to keep abortion legal in New York, but the word “abortion” isn’t even mentioned in Proposal 1. New York already has some of the most permissive and broadest abortion laws of any state. Abortion has been legal in New York since 1970, preceding Roe v. Wade by three years. Access to abortion in New York was greatly expanded in 2019 with the passage of the Reproductive Health Act with supermajorities in both houses, which allows abortion in the third trimester for any reason, and repealed the legal requirement that medical care be provided to children who survived an abortion.  Abortion is in no danger in New York.

These are just some of the issues that Prop 1 will open if it passes.

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