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Human Trafficking Law Must Happen

1/20/2015

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Earlier this month, the New York State  Senate showed principled leadership on women's issues by passing its  eight-point women's equality agenda without voting on Gov. Andrew  Cuomo's uncompassionate, anti-woman abortion expansion bill. Many of the  bills that make up the Senate's women's equality agenda consist of  common-sense measures that close loopholes in existing law relating to  domestic violence, sexual harassment, and pregnancy discrimination.

Perhaps  the most urgent provision within the women's equality agenda
is the Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act (TVPJA) (S.7 - Lanza/A.506 - Paulin),  which would create additional protections for women, men, and young  people who are victims of sex trafficking and labor trafficking. It is appalling and unconscionable that even one person should be enslaved in  our state 150 years after our nation fought a war to end slavery.  Unfortunately, many hardline pro-abortion elected officials-including  Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver-callously refuse to allow any women's equality agenda bills to become law unless they are  accompanied by abortion expansion. Gov. Cuomo has even gone so far as  to insult New York voters' intelligence by placing an
anti-human-trafficking poster on his website while refusing to insist on an immediate Assembly vote on the Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act.

Gov. Cuomo, it is not enough to put an  anti-trafficking poster on your website. We call upon you to insist upon  the immediate passage of the TVPJA as a stand-alone bill. Speaker  Silver, if you wish to position yourself as a pro-woman voice, do the  right thing. Stop the obstructionist tactics and the extremist abortion  politics, and allow the TVPJA to the Assembly floor for a vote. The time  to act is now, and New
Yorkers will not wait.

TAKE ACTION:  Visit New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms'  legislative action center to encourage
Governor Andrew Cuomo, Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul and your Member of Assembly to do everything in their power to make the TVJPA  law. Let them know that talking about the issue is not enough.
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