On Jan. 22, the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationally, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law one of the nation’s most extreme abortion bills. He then directed One World Trade Center and other landmarks to be lit in pink to celebrate the law, which enshrines abortion as “a fundamental right” and essentially removes all limits on the killing of unborn babies. 

The law “has expanded abortion-on-demand in New York past 24 weeks—well past when unborn children feel pain, are viable and suffer during the course of an abortion,” said Christina Fadden, chair of New York State Right to Life. “This is inhumane.”

John Stonestreet wrote in a Breakpoint commentary: “New York has just made it legal for a fully-formed, eight-pound baby with a head of hair, fingernails, eyelashes and a 100 percent chance of surviving outside the womb to be poisoned and crushed.”

The law removes any provision to care for a baby that is born live after an attempted abortion, removes any possibility that an unborn baby older than 24 weeks could be seen as a homicide victim and allows abortion if a health care practitioner deems it necessary to protect the mother’s life or health. The Supreme Court has ruled that “health” can be defined with wide latitude to include emotional and psychological health.

Cuomo had promised to pass the law because of the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court might one day reverse Roe v. Wade.

Responding to Cuomo’s order to light buildings in pink, Dr. Omar L. Hamada, an OB-GYN, said in a “Fox & Friends” interview, “That’s actually sick that we’re celebrating the death of infants—of babies that could live outside of the womb right then.”