All New Yorkers deserve to have our fundamental rights and freedoms protected, including our right to abortion. And no New Yorker should be discriminated against because of who they are.

Many of us took it for granted that our reproductive freedom would always be protected. When Roe v. Wade fell, we were shocked, and we realized our rights aren’t as safe as we thought. Since then, reproductive rights like abortion, birth control, and IVF have been under attack across the country.

We need to do everything we can to ensure that never happens in New York. We need to cement our fundamental rights and reproductive freedoms in the state constitution so they are permanently protected and cannot be rolled back by out-of-touch politicians in the future.

And Prop 1 doesn’t stop there: it also closes loopholes in the state constitution to make sure that no New Yorker can be discriminated against by the government, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, pregnancy status, disability status, or whether someone is LGBT. Because those in power shouldn’t be able to take advantage of any New Yorker, especially the most vulnerable among us.