Posted on 12/12/2019 6:03:58 PM PST by Morgana
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf continues to be a roadblock to pro-life legislation, including bills that do not restrict abortions in any way but recognize the value of unborn babies.
In November, the state House passed a bill that would require health care facilities to bury or cremate the remains of unborn babies who died in abortions or miscarriages or give parents the option of burying their baby themselves. It does not require burial/cremation for babies miscarried at home. State House Bill 1890, sponsored by Rep. Frank Ryan, R-Lebanon, now is awaiting action in a state Senate committee.
However, Wolf, a pro-abortion Democrat who used to volunteer at Planned Parenthood, said he would veto the bill if it reaches his desk, The York Daily Record reports.
“The only thing that has been standing in the way of” pro-life legislation in Pennsylvania is Wolf, the report noted.
Ryan said he wrote the bill to give grieving parents the opportunity to provide a dignified burial for their child. He said he and his wife lost their first baby to miscarriage, and their baby’s body was disposed of without their knowledge.
“We wanted to craft something that was voluntary, that provided the family with the ability for closure, the ability to understand that a human life was lost, their life, that they’d been striving for for so long,” Ryan said. It’s “strictly voluntary for women.”
Here’s more from the report:
Ryan told a personal story when he introduced the legislation, explaining that he was upset when his wife had a miscarriage in the 1970s because the hospital disposed of the fetal remains without asking him.
“I still want to know where he is, and I don’t know that,” he said.
Ryan said he wants to help people get closure and heal, not hurt them.
But one of Wolf’s closest allies and biggest campaign contributors, Planned Parenthood, is vehemently opposed to the bill.
The abortion chain blasted the legislation as an attempt to “harass health-care providers as well as shame women seeking abortions,” according to the report.
On Tuesday, Wolf reiterated his support of abortion, writing on Twitter: “I will block any attempt to limit women’s rights. I’ll do everything I can to protect Roe v. Wade. I’ll veto any anti-choice bill that lands on my desk.”
Just a few weeks ago, Wolf vetoed a bill to protect unborn babies with Down syndrome from discrimination. In 2017, he also vetoed a bill that would have protected nearly fully formed unborn babies from dismemberment abortions.
Pro-abortion Democrats have been attacking Ryan’s legislation by claiming it is just another attempt to restrict abortions. During a committee hearing in October, state Rep. Wendy Ullman drew widespread outrage when she described a miscarried baby as “just some mess on a napkin.” Ullman is a pro-abortion Democrat who was endorsed by Planned Parenthood. She opposed the bill when it passed the House.
Similar legislation is in effect in other parts of the country. In 2016, Indiana passed a law under then-Gov. Mike Pence to help ensure that aborted babies’ remains are buried or cremated, not sold. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law earlier this year. Texas leaders are fighting to defend a similar burial law in court in their state.
ACTION: Contact Pennsylvania state lawmakers and ask them to support HB 1890.
Democrats are a death cult. Life is abhorrent to them.
He’s in favor of building a pyramid and flinging them off the top. Moloch Wolf has determined his eternity.
I do think that the Catholic Church, my Church, could have been and must, provide burials for babies who die in utero spontaneously. It would provide numerous advantages plus an argument against abortion.
Right now the hierarchy is otherwise occupied with aganae not coinciding with the Church. Eh. Heretical activities
You should throw the bodies of all the babies that have been aborted on his desk while he is sitting in it. Tell this baby butcher that the blood of the innocent cries out to the Almighty day and night. While he is dining and enjoying his personal prosperity and family, their blood cries out. While he is sleeping in his warm comfortable bed, their blood cries out to Heaven. And one day his shriveled up soul will stand before the absolute rage and justice of HaKodesh Baruch Hu. It would have been better for Tom Wolfe that He had never been born, instead of the millions of his innocent victims who never got the chance to see the light of day.
He’s a Wolf in wolf’s clothing.
Residents of Pennsylvania should start an impeachment recall initiative against Gov. Tom Wolf. In California the residents are well underway to recall Gov Nuisance op’s Newsom. Almost a million signatures have been gathered.
Remember “VOTE DEM OUT”
Can all the register all the people having abortions like people with guns? I will add a monument for the dead babies similar to the Vietnam Memirial.
More Trump votes rolling in.
Most bodies in the movies are buried out of respect to the dead.
Unless they are a hated enemy of sorts. But that’s the movies.
...Death Panels just might appear immediately.
If babies' lives mean less than nothing to the Dems, then Senior Citizen will mean even less.
Dems = Collectivized medicine = Death Panels.
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