A pro-life leader in New York is highlighting the importance of November's elections.

The good news is the New York General Assembly shut down early last Friday, which means that major abortion legislation failed. Such a measure would have expanded abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. Chris Slattery, who heads Expectant Mother Care EMC FrontLine Pregnancy Centers in New York City, tells OneNewsNow another bill would have required the centers to promote abortion and allow investigators to determine whether they are using deception.

"There's already statutes that cover that, so that just would have been duplicative," he submits. "Of course they're targeting pregnancy centers because they're the enemy of the abortion industry; we take away the business of abortion doctors."

Republicans have held a one-vote margin in the state Senate that has blocked pro-abortion bills in the past. But Slattery says that could change.

"Five Republican New York state senators are retiring," the pro-lifer reports. "This state has become as blue as you can get, and we're going to have a completely Democrat-controlled government -- similar to California, where they really can and will accomplish the absolute worst."

Slattery is calling for prayer and for pro-life New Yorkers to show up at the polls this November to vote pro-life for New York, or the balance will tip, likely in the direction legalizing abortion on-demand for any reason and regardless of age of the preborn baby. Pro-life pregnancy centers would be at risk as well.