If this law passes, Pennsylvania is cooked. Now contrast Demonrats wanting to kill the unborn at will with how every illegal alien criminal is so precious to our nation. Consequently, if they can’t kill the babies in the womb, they want to mutilate and indoctrinate them into sexual perversion and/or have sex with them as witnessed by laws being passed, especially in California by Sen. Scott Weiner.
https://www.liveaction.org/news/pennsylvania-house-passes-amendment-abortion-birth
Pennsylvania House narrowly passes amendment to allow abortion to birth
By Tabitha Goodling
(Pregnancy Help News) — The Pennsylvania House of Representatives narrowly passed an amendment to the state constitution last week that would allow abortion on demand up until birth.
The 102-101 final House vote held December 17, with two Democrats and two Republicans voting against, was the first of seven radical abortion bills before the Pennsylvania legislature.
Local pro-life advocates are calling the bill an abortionist’s dream, and if enacted, the most radical law in the nation.
If passed, House Bill 1957 would enshrine abortion at all stages of pregnancy in the state constitution based upon so-called “personal reproductive liberty” and result in all current Pennsylvania restrictions and safeguards for abortion, including parental consent, informed consent, and the 24-hour waiting period, being overridden. Currently in Pennsylvania, abortion is legal until 24 weeks or the point of viability. The bill’s broad language could also mean taxpayer-funded abortion and non-physicians committing abortions.
Couched by supporters in “reproductive rights” language, the bill is also feared to enable abortion practitioners to end the lives of viable born-alive infants.
While the radical abortion bill still has some hurdles to clear, pro-life advocates are also concerned that pro-abortion voices, some making questionable statements regarding abortion, had an outsized impact on the House passage of the bill.
The Pennsylvania Pregnancy Wellness Collaborative (PPWC) has been publicly opposing HB 1957 since it was introduced earlier this year, with President Sarah Bowen and others in the Collaborative meeting repeatedly with legislators about their concerns over it and the six other abortion-related billsbefore the legislature.
Democrat Representative Arvind Venkat, an emergency room doctor, testified before the House Judiciary Committee the day before the December 17 House vote approving HB 1957, making what Collaborative members deemed outrageous statements about late-term and elective abortions. Venkat also conflated emergency Cesarean section procedures with abortion.
Venkat told the Judiciary Committee there is “no such thing as an elective abortion” at the end of a pregnancy, proceeding to present extreme scenarios of pregnant women experiencing cardiac arrest from trauma, hemorrhage, or sepsis, inferring the women would need abortion as an intervention – though discussing emergency C-sections.
“As an emergency physician, I am trained to even perform what’s called a perimortem C-section, which is that when a pregnant woman comes in cardiac arrest and they are post-viability,” Venkat said. “If we’re not able to resuscitate them, to actually perform a C-section in the emergency department post-mortem to try and deliver the fetus.”
Venkat said this procedure does not often work, and therefore the only choice is to keep a woman “from death’s door.”
“I would urge this body to recognize the existing body of medical evidence and to support this amendment in recognizing that fetal viability is determinative and that we can make this judgment medically in medical circumstances,” Venkat said.
PPWC members are confident Venkat’s testimony influenced the House Judiciary Committee to advance the bill to the House floor for a vote.
“These lectures have an impact,” said Amy Scheuring, executive director of Pittsburgh’s Network of Life and PPWC member, “and often are an effort to gain sympathy from legislators who may not normally vote in favor of third trimester abortion,” but would consider it based on the testimony.
Scheuring, who had hosted Venkat for a tour of her center in the days before the House vote on HB 1975, part of an ongoing PPWC effort to invite legislators to pregnancy help centers since the Dobbs ruling, provided Venkat’s statements to Pregnancy Help News from a video recording of the House Judiciary Committee hearing.