Your eyes do not deceive you. Pennsyltucky Republicans in the wee hours forced a committee vote on abortion instead of settling the state budget by adding a proposed amendment to the Constituion of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that states no guarantee of any rights relating to abortion or public funding of abortions.
So they can enact a proposed amendment to the state constitution to remove a woman’s right to choose no matter what the circumstances, but cannot enact an act of the state constitution to protect our communities from predatory development and bad zoning by updating the Municipalities Planning Code?????? At least now we understand fully (like we didn’t know before right?) the value of women in the birthplace of America just after the 4th of July.
According to these politicians, women only have value as dictated by men. Are you OK with that? I’m not OK with that, and I have never been any particularly great women’s libber over the course of my life. But I have always believed that no matter what her choice, each woman should have the fundamental right to choose what is best for them, their body, their own family.
This all took place at just before midnight last night. So as Thursday night was becoming Friday morning, Pennsylvania Senate Republicans worked feverishly to screw over every woman in Pennsylvania. If this gets passed this is something out of the reach of the Governor and a veto.
The screenshot directly above shows you how it was voted on. Those who said YEA need their offices and social media FLOODED and TODAY. As in THIS MORNING. We are the world of smart phones so use your little smart phone and look up their information and get busy. Here is the AP press release that contains a lot of salient information:
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.”
…The bill is in its first two-year session so must be advertised three months ahead of the Nov. 8 election if the Republican majority wants to get it to voters during the 2023-24 session that starts in January.
So if you are beyond child bearing age and have daughters, sons or grandchildren you had better school them today on safe sex and get them familiar with birth control and more because who knows how long they will even have access to that if this goes through.
If any women I know are upset by my post, hey get over yourselves because regardless if you are pro-life or pro-choice this affects women’s rights because no matter what the choice, a woman should have the right to decide what is right for her body, her life, her family.
It is astounding that we just celebrated the national holiday which is all about our freedoms and our rights, and here we are on the verge of losing them in a state that counts as a birthplace of America?
A lot of this can be laid at the feet of a female Pennsyltucky Republican named Kim Ward. Her phone number in Greensburg is (724)-600-7002 or (717) 787-6063. Be sure to give her a call.
If you want to understand how elections will have consequences, this is it. So guess what? You might have to hold your nose on voting for a couple of choices but if you don’t vote these people out of office this coming November we’re all screwed and future generations are screwed.
Do not let Pennsylvania Republicans screw with our state constitution to remove rights. It’s pretty much that simple. If our founding fathers fought, blood, and died for us to have rights, who are these turds to remove our rights? They do NOT have that right.
Get busy ladies and supportive gents, time is a wasting. #mybodymychoice
Call, write, protest, mail metal coat hangers by the bag full to Harrisburg.
I am not chattel. No woman is chattel. Enough political fuckery.
If all of our rights are not protected equally under the rule of law, we fundamentally have no rights. It’s just that simple.
They got schooled on safe sex in school. If you didn’t school them as a parent, shame on you! Are there no women on the committee that voted on this? I’m overjoyed that they voted to rescind this atrocious bill that should never been passed 40 years ago. If they’re not on birth control, they need to keep their pants on. I waited until after I was 18, can’t anyone else?
Shame on me? Shame on you you goddamn pathetic Neanderthal
I see no ban on abortion or women’s rights. What is specifically states is that it does not want taxpayer money to go to paying for abortions (it shouldn’t) and that the Constitution of PA does not ADDRESS the subject of abortion. That is a clarification, not a ban, not a regulation, nothing. It is specifying the obvious. Also, good for them on the Voter ID and the running mate issue. That should have been done a long time ago.
Vis-à-vis abortion you and I are going to have to agree to disagree. And I don’t have a problem with showing my ID at the polls I think it’s just common sense.
Actually I think you and I agree on abortion. We disagree on the actuality for the action. I am reading it as it is written. You are reading into what is written and making an interpretation. And that is exactly what they are trying to limit, interpretation. That’s all. Thanks, as always for publishing my comment. You know, there are some places that censor what they don’t like. I won’t mention names but the initials are West Vincent Voices.