Even as America continues to falter under “President” Trump’s “governance,” the Republican obsession with women’s uteruses continues. Fortunately, the Pennsylvania-based politicians eager to get between patients and their doctors will have to keep living in a world where abortion rights are arbitrarily trimmed down.
Still, there are flashed of resistance. Earlier this week Republicans in the state Senate passed SB 3, which is a direct attack on abortion access—but Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf refuses to sign it into law. Philly.com reports:
Wolf, a Democrat, has promised to veto the bill, calling it “the most extreme anti-choice legislation in the country” and “an assault on the doctor-patient relationship by politicians without medical or health expertise.”
The bill, Senate Bill 3, would ban abortions at the 20-week mark of pregnancy except in some medical emergencies. That’s four weeks earlier than under the current state law. It passed the House on Tuesday night, 121-70. The same bill passed the Senate in February, 32-18.
It would also sharply curtail a second-trimester surgical procedure the bill’s supporters refer to as “dismemberment abortion,” a term that is not widely recognized in the medical community.
The state lawmakers could try to override his veto, but they don’t have the numbers to make it likely.