Senator Eric Schneiderman is taking strong offense at yesterday's Supreme Court ruling, a sentiment unlikely to go down well with extremist anti-choice advocates like, say, Serph Maltese. From an email:

Dear Friend,

Yesterday, I was scheduled to bring a motion to the senate floor to force a vote on a bill to prohibit pharmacists or pharmacy chains from refusing to dispense emergency contraception or other medications lawfully prescribed by a doctor. My motion came to the floor just a few hours after the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Gonzalez v. Carhart, that--for the first time since the court's historic decision in Roe v. Wade--upheld a national ban on specific abortion procedures.

This ruling, which upheld the federal ban on so-called "partial birth abortions" that was signed into law by President Bush in 2003, was also the first time that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld any limit on abortion rights without providing an exception when the health of the patient was at risk. This decision has crossed a dangerous line, setting a new pace for the ideological attack on reproductive rights and on every woman's essential Constitutional right to control her own body. The full clip of my remarks is available here (audio only).

Sincerely,

Eric Schneiderman
NYS State Senator, 31st SD

Nice work. Just as a reminder what a difference a Democratic Senate would make.