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Abortion is legal up to 24 weeks in Pennsylvania but the number of providers has dwindled in recent years, reducing access for many people seeking care. The post Abortion advocates in Pennsylvania renew calls for national policy appeared first on Pennsylvania Capital-Star.
Educators, parents, and policy experts testified about the impact of efforts to ban certain books from public school libraries throughout the Commonwealth.
Despite opposition from Senate Democrats, Republicans in the upper chamber advanced a proposal to add language to the Pennsylvania Constitution stating that the governing document does not guarantee any rights relating to abortion or public funding for the procedure.