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Wolf will veto, Senate won't be able to override. Legislative masturbation.
Posted on 07/08/2022 7:45:45 AM PDT by Morgana
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican state senators outvoted impassioned Democratic opposition late Thursday to advance a proposal to add language to the Pennsylvania Constitution stating explicitly that the document does not guarantee any rights relating to abortion or public funding of abortions.
The chamber’s Rules Committee teed up the package of proposed amendments that would also require voters to show ID at polling places and have gubernatorial candidates choose their own running mates. A vote of the full Senate could occur Friday.
The Democratic floor leader, Sen. Jay Costa of Allegheny County, said he saw the abortion bill as “designed to prevent abortions in this commonwealth” while the sponsor, Republican Sen. Judy Ward of Blair, said it would simply give the Legislature power to determine abortion law.
The proposal was tacked onto a package of constitutional amendments in a bill the state House approved in December. Other amendments would let lawmakers disapprove regulations without facing a governor’s veto and have the General Assembly set up a system for the auditor general to conduct election audits.
“Our Abortion Control Act will still remain in place,” said Ward, an abortion rights opponent. “And this constitutional amendment will just go to the people and it allows us in the Legislature the ability to set these rules and laws concerning abortion in this commonwealth.”
Sen. Katie Muth, D-Montgomery, vowed that “women and their allies will not stand for this. This is a ban on our rights.”
“I don’t need a single person in this room to tell me what to do with my body,” Muth said. “I don’t.”
(Excerpt) Read more at philadelphia.cbslocal.com ...
“I don’t need a single person in this room to tell me what to do with my body,” Muth said“
Can you legally use your body to transport heroin or fentanyl?
Can you legally use your body to punch someone without provocation?
Can you legally use your body to conceal a handgun without a permit from the State?
Can you legally use your body to hunt without a license?
Can you legally use your body to shove a person into the path of an oncoming train?
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should change the click-bait headline to include that its a state senate and not the national government.
GOP? Pennsylvania? What has changed, that GOP starts acting like conservatives again?
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In my opinion, the wrong approach. Better to define when life / citizenship begins
Hey PA repubs. Fix your damn elections.
It will never pass the states outside of California and New York—its too unpopular. Remember NOW? That never passed.
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Wolf will veto, Senate won't be able to override. Legislative masturbation.
Are Pennsylvania Republicans waking up from a coma??
If they grow a spine, and show republican voters such, they just may stand a chance in November??
How perceptive!
Waste of time. Even if it passes the house and senate chamber, it will be vetoed by the Rat governor.
Are you sure that is the process for an amendment to their State Constitution works?
You are correct. An amendment does need a signature from the governor. It would have to go to the voters for approval.
They would need to add it as a question on the ballot. No doubt, the Rats will word it so as to be the opposite of the true meaning so that the public will vote against amending the constitution.
“ GOP? Pennsylvania? What has changed, that GOP starts acting like conservatives again?”
The PA GOP has been good for a while. Most who criticize them do so from ignorance of what happened to Act 77, which was unconstitutionally modified by the Dem Governor and the Dem PASC. And it’s been overturned.
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