In her commentary ("Cuomo goes well beyond 'Roe' ruling," May 21), Jacqueline Nolan-Haley charges the Reproductive Health Act, part of the Women's Equality Agenda supported by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and 80 percent of New Yorkers, is short on specifics. I disagree.
To me, as an OB-GYN, the law as written is clear and helpful. The law's whole point is to create precise and specific language that aligns New York's laws governing abortion care with federal law and current medical practice. Additionally, the agenda clarifies and affirms that New York already regulates health care providers and sets up-to-date standards for what medical professionals can and cannot do in our state.
Specifics are what doctors are seeking. Federal law says I can perform a later abortion to save a woman's health; New York law does not. This leads to confusion.
The Reproductive Health Act will create the clarity, and the specifics, we are so desperately seeking to ensure we can save women's lives and their health.
Anne Davis, M.D., MPH
New York City
Associate professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology, Columbia University Medical Center in New York City; director, Kenneth Ryan Family Planning Fellowship