Josefa Velasquez is reporting at Politico New York state Senate Democratic Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins will introduce legislation to update the state’s abortion law. The language in the bill, according to Democratic Sen. Liz Krueger [CREW-grr] of Manhattan, will be stronger and more concise than previous iterations of the legislation. The introduction of a more explicit abortion bill comes in reaction to President-elect Donald Trump's view that the Supreme Court decision in Roe versus Wade would be overturned "automatically" once he appoints conservative justices to the country's highest court. New York's existing law was passed three years before the 1973 federal ruling, and allows women to have an abortion within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy or when “necessary to preserve the the mother’s life.” The federal statute allows for abortions past 24 weeks if either the mother’s life or health are at risk. Based on Trump's stated intention to hand abortion protections over to the states, as matters now stand, New York would revert back to that 1970 law. The proposed Reproductive Health Act would bring the state’s abortion law into line with the federal statute and move it from penal law to the state's public health law. Read the full story at Politico New York.