{"id":223,"date":"2015-05-13T22:48:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T22:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=223"},"modified":"2016-12-08T22:48:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T22:48:31","slug":"statement-by-speaker-melissa-mark-viverito-re-house-passage-of-20-week-abortion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2015\/05\/13\/223\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito Re: House Passage of 20-Week Abortion Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s disgraceful that Republican extremists in the House of Representatives have continued their desperate war on women\u2019s health. Time and time again, we\u2019ve seen Congressional Republicans politicize reproductive rights and threaten to interfere with a woman\u2019s right to choose. Instead of passing draconian bills that would set our country back generations, Washington Republicans should join House Democrats in their focus on creating jobs, implementing comprehensive immigration reform and providing working parents with paid family leave. We urge the Senate to reject these outrageous anti-choice, anti-woman measures and leave discussions about women\u2019s health to women and their doctors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s disgraceful that Republican extremists in the House of Representatives have continued their desperate war on women\u2019s health. Time and time again, we\u2019ve seen Congressional Republicans politicize reproductive rights and threaten to interfere with a woman\u2019s right to choose. Instead of passing draconian bills that would set our country back generations, Washington Republicans should join House Democrats in their focus on creating jobs, implementing comprehensive immigration reform and providing working parents with paid family leave.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2015\/05\/13\/223\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}