Section 291. Equality of opportunity a civil right  


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  • 1. The opportunity to
      obtain employment without discrimination because of  age,  race,  creed,
      color,  national  origin,  sexual  orientation,  military status, sex or
      marital status 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, military
      status, sex or marital status,  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.