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The New York State Right to Life Party was founded to oppose the legalization of abortion in New York in 1970. The party first made the state ballot in the 1978 gubernatorial election, where its candidate Mary Jane Tobin won 130,000 votes. Its share of the vote subsequently declined, although it maintained official ballot status until 2002, when it fell short of the 50,000 votes required to remain on the ballot. In 2006, the party endorsed Reverend Jennifer Liese for Governor. Liese's signatures were disputed by a Republican staffer, Rachel L. Bledi.[1] As of November 2006 there were 40,278 members statewide. [2]
Its initial goal was a failure; abortion was legalized in New York in 1971, and Roe v. Wade effectively legalized abortion by judicial edict in 1973.
[edit] Gubernatorial tickets
- 1970: Mrs. James Gilroy
- 1978: Mary Jane Tobin & Ellen McCormack
- 1982: Robert Bohner & Paul Callahan
- 1986: Denis Dillon & Thomas Droleskey
- 1990: Louis Wein & Gertrude Manning
- 1994: Robert T. "Bob" Walsh & Virginia Sutton
- 1998: Michael J. "Mike" Reynolds & Karen Prior
- 2002: Gerard J. "Gerry" Cronin & Stasia T. Vogel
- 2006: Rev. Jennifer S. Liese
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