In the week following Donald Trump’s stunning presidential victory, Republicans elected to lower-level offices across the nation have pushed forward some radically right-wing legislation, including a total ban on abortions and the sanctioning of protest as “economic terrorism.”
H.B. 1948, which passed the Pennsylvania House by a 140-58 vote, would scale back the availability of legal abortions from six months after fertilization to five, mandate spousal approval and require that a second physician be present in case the fetus survives the abortion. A violation would be a third-degree felony, punishable by up to seven years in prison and a $15,000 fine. In addition to restricting the time limit, the bill would officially rename second-trimester abortions “dismemberment abortion.”
Using the guise of a budget bill, Republicans tried to push through the bill to little avail Wednesday.
Gov. Tom Wolf has threatened to veto it if it reaches his […]
We’re also seeing repression of free speech by the left-wingers at Twitter and FaceBook.
Anything bad that flows from this election is the fault of the Democratic leadership for not doing what they needed to do to win. They picked a candidate with serious vulnerabilities and ran an uninspired campaign.
Nancy Pelosi deserves a lot of blame for the misconceived ACA, which they forced through without bothering to read. The US has not come into the 20th century on the issue of health care, much less the 21st.
Many other countries, even in the 2nd or 3rd worlds, have long had some form of basic health coverage on a national level. The Democrats turned healthcare into a playground for greedy people.
Free speech! There are part of this country that don’t have any radio stations but fake news from the far right. Hillary won the most votes in the last election. As to healthcare, let post he greed of the CEO salaries for insurance companies- they are bankers not healing care givers.