ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo suffered several setbacks yesterday and all but admitted defeat of his 10-point women’s-equality agenda after the ranking Democrat in the Senate introduced a bill without the controversial pro-abortion plank the governor has pushed.
Cuomo’s measure sought to codify under state law abortion rights currently guaranteed on the federal level by the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision, should that decision be overturned.
But Sen. Jeff Klein, head of the Independent Democratic Coalition, which shares Senate leadership with Republicans, said that he wouldn’t include the abortion item.