At New Yorker’s Family Research Foundation (NYFRF), we are getting back into the groove of the legislative session, and with it comes the first edition of the 2010 Freedoms’ Alert newspaper. Starting this year, the paper will be arriving in your mailbox on a bimonthly basis. Thank you for your continued readership.

On December 2, 2009, Governor David Paterson’s same-sex marriage bill was defeated in the New York State Senate by a vote of 38 to 24. All 30 Republican senators voted "no," along with eight Democrats (Sens. Diaz, Aubertine, Stachowski, Onorato, Kruger, Huntley, Monserrate and Addabbo).

A pro-life women’s organization has filed suit to block taxpayer-funded compensation to women who donate their eggs for medical research purposes. The legal complaint was filed on October 9, 2009, in Feminists Choosing Life of New York v. Empire State Stem Cell Board.