Abortion right supporters rallied Wednesday in what they said was a response to Republicans' fast-tracking of a bill that would place an anti-abortion constitutional amendment in front of voters.
, which struck down the legal precedents protecting abortion rights inWithout those federal legal protections, and if abortion is specifically excluded from state constitutional rights, abortion opponents in the state legislature could pass more restrictive laws. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf has pledged to veto such measures while he is governor.
Republicans have insisted that the proposed amendment would not change access to abortion. But legal experts have said it would lay the groundwork for major restrictions, some of which have“This amendment would allow politicians to force adults and children to give birth,” Khan said. “That’s what we’re talking about…being forced to remain pregnant no matter their health conditions.”decision, abortion providers say they are seeing the effects of new abortion restrictions in other states.
Ohio enacted a six-weeks-of-gestation abortion ban over the summer, with only a few exceptions that are difficult to satisfy. A 10-year-old rape victim who left Ohio to get an abortion“Pennsylvanians are now being displaced in abortion care because we are getting an influx of folks traveling,” Rodriguez said. Delays due to travel and the sudden inflow can be risky, especially for the most vulnerable.
“We do see a lot of the cases where patients are experiencing miscarriages, fetal anomalies, a fetal demise,” Rodriguez said. Such patients in states like Ohio, who may have never anticipated having an abortion, are “coming to the realization that now you have to travel outside of your community for care,” she said.
Planned Parenthood also shared submitted stories at Wednesday’s rally from those who had used abortion services and described them as vital - one, for instance, describing getting an abortion after finding out she was pregnant while being prepared for surgery.A Tulane University
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