Its painful to realize that Corbett is nothing I want, he doesn’t even have the willingness to properly inspect abortion clinics in this state.
Earlier this year a Pro-Life blogger revealed via a Planned Parenthood source that PP clinics cancelled abortions scheduled for the days when the PA Department of Health inspectors showed up.
The response to her blogging came not from the Corbett Administration itself, but the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, which said the Corbett Administration was “investigating”. I heard nothing about it since....
Later in the year the Associated Press wrote a story about the PA Health Department asking a PP clinic in Chester County about their doctors having admitting privileges at local hospitals. The health department backed off after the AP started asking questions.
A new abortion clinic regulation law (ACT 122) was passed by our legislature and signed by Governor Corbett in the aftermath of the grand jury investigation murder trial-conviction of Dr. Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia.
The grand jury said in its report that “politics” was involved in the lack of health department oversight of the Gosnell abortion clinic.
It turns out that for a 16 year period when both Republican Tom Ridge and Democrat Ed Rendell were governor, the health department did not inspect the Gosnell clinic.
I know Tom Wolf is a lifelong financial supporter of PP, but it looks like Tom Corbett is playing footsie with them as well in spite of the hype from the PA Pro-Life Federation that he is “Pro-Life”.
A new abortion clinic regulation law (ACT 122) was passed by our legislature and signed by Governor Corbett...So? What’s your bitch?
Accusing Tom Corbett of “playing footsie” with Planned Parenthood is vile... If you did even a teeny bit of research before you flung nasty accusations around, you’d see that Planned Parenthood is desperately trying to defeat Corbett.
From Planned Parenthood website - Top 10 Reasons Why Governor Corbett is Bad for Pennsylvania Women
http://www.plannedparenthoodpa.org/top10corbett/
PA GOP Governor Defends Ultrasounds Bill: Tells Concerned Women ‘You Just Have To Close Your Eyes’
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/03/15/444999/pennsylvania-governor-supports-ultrasound-bill/