The ban – which would even apply in states where abortion is legal – would prohibit women veterans from getting military-provided abortion health care, even if they were raped.
“In Pennsylvania, our current law puts regulations around abortion care in the criminal code, and that is absolutely unacceptable. Health care is not a crime,” said State Senator Amanda Cappelletti.
“We’re absolutely in a public health crisis of epic proportions. We’re in a situation where there are reproductive health care deserts, not just abortion care deserts,” said National Abortion Federation President and CEO Brittany Fonteno.
“The Trump Administration would rather women die in emergency rooms than receive life-saving abortions,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights.
One of Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick’s constituents urges him to put public health above politics and vote against any budget that cuts Medicaid.
This leaves just a handful of clinics offering abortions after 28 weeks into pregnancy — many on a case-by-case basis.
The goal of the proposed legislation is to protect women who receive abortions and the doctors and nurses who provide this reproductive health care.
Experts say the abortion abolitionist movement, once considered fringe, is growing and getting louder, empowered by recent victories for abortion opponents.
‘Fetal personhood’ bills would grant fetuses, embryos the same rights as newborns.
According to the poll conducted between Oct. 10-11, “Trump fatigue” was setting in for PA-01 voters and “the unpopularity of Trump and the national GOP brand [was] splashing onto Fitzpatrick.”
Doylestown, Morrisville, Perkasie and New Hope were among the locations where local residents protested Saturday because they love their country.
“If you want to run a prosecutor’s office that’s really going to keep people safe, you need to be proactive and you need to be out there in the community,” said Khan.
Partisan politics takes a back seat as a community unites to protect its home from a solid waste recycling center.
Democratic candidate for sheriff Danny Ceisler said if elected he vows to “end this deportation partnership once and for all.”
