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?
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New Pennsylvania Project CEO Kadida Kenner said the new measure “will undoubtedly help to close the voter registration gap, especially in communities of color where the gap is the most pronounced.”
It plans to visit all 67 counties and help local leaders and organizations solve problems tearing communities apart by promoting and prioritizing peace, understanding, and tolerance.
If we taught peace lessons to youth each year – grades K-12 – would they change how they handle conflict?
Once again the Moms for Liberty school board majority continues to push its politically motivated agenda with its proposed athletics policy.
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