State Senators Amanda Cappelletti and Judith Schwank’s bills will offer safeguards for providers and for in-state and out-of-state patients looking to access reproductive care, including abortion, in PA.
The new governor has promised to protect abortion access and veto any legislation to restrict or outlaw the procedure during a series of press calls earlier this year.
Because it’s a general election, all registered voters, including those registered as independent or third-party, can participate.
Thursday’s speech marks Biden’s second visit to Pennsylvania — a battleground state with high-stakes elections this fall — in the past week
A Bucks County mom recently received a surgical abortion because she miscarried. She now wonders if abortion is banned in PA, “Would I have then bled out at home in my bathroom … Would I have been forced to undergo a labor that would never produce a live child and risk dying on the hospital table?”
“Bodily autonomy and privacy should be a human right,” Physician General and acting Health Secretary Dr. Denise Johnson testified Tuesday.
The upper chamber voted 30-20 along party lines to send the proposal to the House of Representatives for consideration.
Feeding America estimates that 1.3 million people in Pennsylvania, including 380,000 children, struggle with food insecurity.
With increased health needs, should Pa. update school staffing requirements?
Despite the threat of legal action, the Bucks County Sheriff’s office moves forward with the 287(g) program that will allow local deputies to act as de facto ICE agents.
The Democratic congressman hopes his Republican colleague Brian Fitzpatrick will vote against a budget that looks to gut social programs like Medicaid and SNAP that millions of families rely on.
“It’s easy to mock this legislation because it’s so inane and embarrassing — and we have,” said Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA).
If ICE approves the 287(g) “task force model” application and the sheriff moves forward without the commissioners’ green light, legal action will be imminent and “Bucks County taxpayers will be on the hook.”
The Michigan state lawmaker with a rising national profile is running for U.S. Senate. She also has ties to Bucks County.
