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3 anti-abortion bills are expected to go up for a vote in the Pennsylvania House next month. Democrats offered a rebuke to bills from House Republicans.
A tweet from a Montgomery County Commissioner Chairwoman Val Arkoosh, who is running for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, sparked online controversy this week over what critics say is misleading information.
Arkoosh’s May 25 tweet said House bill 118 would fine women who have a miscarriage and “force them to fill out” a fetal death certificate.
“Members of the PA legislature today voted to fine women who miscarry and force them to fill out this form. This is traumatizing for women experiencing incredible loss. Unbelievable,” Arkoosh wrote.
The tweet included a picture of a Pennsylvania Department of Health Fetal Death Certificate form, which is currently required by the state after 16 weeks into a pregnancy.
May 27, 2021 at 8:10 AM
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Let’s start with the good news: Democratic Governor Tom Wolf has promised to veto all three of the anti-abortion bills which passed out of the Pennsylvania House Health Committee yesterday. For the time being, none of this is becoming law.
Which is perhaps why these state legislators felt free to pass such blatantly unconstitutional, wildly unpopular claptrap. These dogs know they’re in no danger of catching the car. The Heartbeat Bill (House Bill 904) would ban all abortions after six weeks, when most women don’t even know they’re pregnant, while the Down Syndrome Protection Act (House Bill 1500) would make it illegal to access abortion care after a Down Syndrome diagnosis.