{"id":212951,"date":"2019-10-23T15:55:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T20:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=212951"},"modified":"2019-10-23T15:57:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T20:57:13","slug":"pennsylvania-legislators-introduce-heartbeat-bill-senate-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pennsylvania-legislators-introduce-heartbeat-bill-senate-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania legislators introduce heartbeat bill to Senate and House"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pennsylvania lawmakers have introduced House Bill 1977<\/a>, a “heartbeat” bill that would require all abortionists to check for a preborn child’s heartbeat before committing an abortion. If a heartbeat is found, the abortion could still be committed if the mother’s health is at risk. However, thousands of medical professionals<\/a> agree that the direct and intentional killing of a child through abortion is never medically necessary.<\/p>\n

“There’s something really wrong here,” said<\/a> Sen. Doug Mastriano who introduced the legislation with Rep. Stephanie Borowicz. “Something nefarious is going on. We turn our backs on the most vulnerable; those who don’t have a voice. And let them be massacred in the womb. We’re talking about the stats of the federal government 60 million abortions since Roe v. Wade was legalized in the ’70s.”<\/p>\n

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The bill does not include exceptions for rape or incest, which was supported at the news conference by keynote speaker and political commentator Kathy Barnette<\/a>, who shared the story of her conception.\u00a0“I had nothing to do with the conditions that brought me into existence and yet there I was, being wonderful and fearfully woven together in my mother’s womb,” she said of her mother’s rape. “I was a human, I was a person, I was not some inanimate object.”<\/p>\n

The bill does include an exception for the mother’s health. Health, however, has a very wide definition when it comes to abortion, and can include<\/a> a woman’s financial health, familial health, and emotional health. Thousands of doctors have attested<\/a> to the fact that abortion is never medically necessary as it is faster and safer to perform an emergency C-section than commit a three-day-long abortion procedure.<\/p>\n

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