Pa. lawmakers introduce bill to ban abortion after fetal heartbeat is detected
Sen.
Senate Bill 912 and House Bill 1977 would prohibit abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, typically at about six weeks’ gestation.
Doctors and reproductive rights advocates argue that the proposals amount to a near-ban, since they would prohibit abortions before many women know they are pregnant.
“When you hear a baby’s heartbeat, everything changes,” said Borowicz, during an emotional news conference at the
Borowicz and Mastriano held the press conference in a
“This bill is nothing but another unconstitutional attempt to ban abortion in Pennsylvania,” said
Several states have passed a variety of similar laws, driven in part by President Donald Trump’s appointment of two conservative justices to the
Mastriano framed his support for the measure as an extension of his three decades of military service.
“I refuse to surrender. I‘m going to fight this to my dying breath,” he said. "This is a fight worth fighting and I‘m going to fight till the end.” Mastriano said, “We are not going to win any victories if we capitulate.”
In a written statement, Women’s
Barnette excoriated abortion rights as an attempt to annihilate blacks.
“Lynching got nothing on Planned Parenthood,” Barnette said. “What slavery could not do in 200 years, and what Jim Crow laws could not do in 100 years, abortion and organizations like
Earlier this month, just six months after it was signed into law, Georgia’s heartbeat bill was struck down in federal court. And a divided
Public support for legal abortion remains high. Currently, 61 percent of Americans polled say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 38 percent say it should be illegal in all or most cases. Meanwhile, the
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