Can you read and understand what YOU google? Or do you want to believe what others tell you to think? Permitting the termination of a pregnancy of a non-viable fetus and/or to save the life of the mother was previously legal in NYS before 1-22-19.
New York’s Reproductive Health Act
What the law says
The RHA
permits abortions when — according to a medical professional’s “reasonable and good faith professional judgment based on the facts of the patient’s case” —
“the patient is within twenty-four weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, or there is an absence of fetal viability, or the abortion is necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.”
In other words, women may choose to have an abortion prior to 24 weeks; pregnancies
typically range from 38 to 42 weeks. After 24 weeks, such decisions must be made with a determination that there is an “absence of fetal viability” or that the procedure is “necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.” That determination must be made by a “health care practitioner licensed, certified, or authorized” under state law, “acting within his or her lawful scope of practice.”