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Town votes to repeal local abortion law BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y The North Hempstead Town Board was scheduled to continue a hearing on Sept. 1 to consider the repeal of a 50-year-old section of town code that allows only hospitals, facilities administered by a hospital or facilities affiliated with a hospital to terminate pregnancies. During an Aug. 4 meeting, the vote to continue the hearing was approved 4-2 along partisan lines with Republican Supervisor Jennifer DeSena absent due to what was said to be a longstanding family commitment. Although not present at the ini-
tial hearing, DeSena will have the chance to vote this Thursday on the ordinance she said she was in favor of repealing. “Although I was unfortunately unable to be there in person tonight to cast my vote due to a longstanding prior family commitment, I support the repeal of this chapter and would have voted yes for it, as it brings North Hempstead’s Town Code into conformity with state law, and removes a chapter of our code which is unenforceable and superseded by the New York Public Health Law,” DeSena said in a statement following the meeting. Chapter 41A in town code was
adopted on Aug. 10, 1971, one year after the state Senate legalized abortion up to the 24th week of pregnancy and two years before the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe v. Wade, which permitted abortions during the first two trimesters of pregnancy in the United States. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe, ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that the U.S. Constitution does not grant a right to abortion. In 1971, more than half of the 16,593 women who had abortions on Long Island used non-hospital clinics in Nassau County, according Continued on Page 42
VGN takes first steps in digitization process Will convert physical documents online following fire BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GREAT NECK SCHOOL DISTRICT
Parkville students were greated by a special guest on their first day of school last week.
The Village of Great Neck Board of Trustees unanimously voted to digitize and store physical documents to an online server during Tuesday night’s public meeting. Less than a month after a fire broke out at Village Hall, the board
selected a digitization and cloud storage proposal from Seery Systems Group, a records storage organization based out of Garden City Park. The two-year proposal, according to documents, permits five village users to have access to PaperVision.com, the software that
converts and stores print documents online. The cost of the proposal is $11,347.20, with options for Seery representatives to come in and provide professional services over a four-day period for an additional $5,800. Continued on Page 43
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