Controversial NY ballot measure Prop 1 passes, AP projects

A arguable New York ballot measurement designed to enshrine abortion authorities protections will pass, contempt guidance from critics who viewed it arsenic a lefty Trojan Horse, nan Associated Press projected.

Early results successful New York City had nan Proposition 1 ballot measurement up 80% pro, to 20% against, metropolis Board of Elections results showed soon aft polls closed Tuesday astatine 9 p.m.

Statewide early results had Prop 1 up 64% to 26%, according to nan authorities Board of Elections.

The referendum besides known as nan Equal Rights Amendment was 1 of galore caller Democrat-driven ballot measures crossed nan US centered astir abortion.

Abortion itself wasn’t mentioned successful nan measurement — instead, it would adhd connection to nan state’s constitution that would widen nan Empire State’s anti-discrimination protections to everyone.

Democrats besides hoped nan abortion-focused measurement would drum up votes from women frightened astir their reproductive authorities nether a imaginable early Trump management and Republican Congress — and, indeed, those fears did thrust galore New Yorkers to nan polls.

“The astir important rumor to maine was abortion,” photographer Cordell Hurst, 52, told The Post extracurricular an upstate polling site.

Lauren Joseph, 45, a caretaker who voted successful Bed-Stuy, said she voted “yes” to Prop 1.

“I should person nan correct to abort my kid if I take to,” she said.

But opponents based on nan projected amendment was, astatine best, sloppily written and could unfastened nan doorway to letting noncitizens vote and stripping parents of their rights complete kids’ transgender surgeries.

“No personification shall beryllium denied nan adjacent protection of nan laws of this state” and would widen each of those protections to everyone sloppy of “race, color, ethnicity, nationalist origin, age, disability, creed [or], religion, aliases sex, including intersexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, gestation outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy,” nan matter of nan projected amendment says.

Constitutional lawyer Bobbi Anne Cox, who is based successful Westchester County, argued that “national origin” can mention to foreigners aliases non-citizens and forbidden immigrants and that “laws of nan state” tin reference voting.

Collegiate swimming champion and anti-trans activist Riley Gaines urged New Yorkers to ballot against nan connection “if you attraction astir women and girls.”

Gaines and different opponents claimed that it could let for biologic males who place arsenic transgender to compete successful women’s sports, and licence youths to get intersexual reassignment room without parental notification aliases approval.

But nan imaginable protections didn’t scare Ennis Price, 27, who voted successful Brooklyn.

“I’m trans,” she said. “I person a nonstop use from that and beyond that to take sides each nan group I attraction about.”

“If everything from coming goes horribly wrong, I dream that passes.”