N.Y. Executive Law § 291: Equality of opportunity a civil right

§ 291. Equality of opportunity a civil right.

1. The opportunity to obtain employment without discrimination because

of age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender

identity or expression, military status, sex, marital status, or

disability, is hereby recognized as and declared to be a civil right.

2. The opportunity to obtain education, the use of places of public

accommodation and the ownership, use and occupancy of housing

accommodations and commercial space without discrimination because of

age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender

identity or expression, military status, sex, marital status, or

disability, as specified in section two hundred ninety-six of this

article, is hereby recognized as and declared to be a civil right.

3. The opportunity to obtain medical treatment of an infant

prematurely born alive in the course of an abortion shall be the same as

the rights of an infant born spontaneously.