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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2021 - 2022
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | September 6, 2022 12:01 PM |
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| From: | Representative Kristine C. Howard |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Ensuring Reproductive Rights |
| Following the Supreme Court’s abominable Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision, which has ushered in a new national patchwork of varying abortion rights by state, it has become imperative that we secure Pennsylvanians’ reproductive health care rights. Ironically, the law that is now preserving these rights in Pennsylvania is known as “The Abortion Control Act,” passed in the 1980s with the goal of restricting access to abortion. Repeatedly amended with numerous burdens, such as waiting periods, spousal and parental notifications, each time chiseling away the freedom of self-determination and bodily autonomy that we hold so dear. The majority party decries any attempt to help our citizens as the costly interference of an invasive nanny state, yet champions the interference of that very same state in its citizens’ bodies as a just and noble cause. This is unacceptable, and Pennsylvanians deserve better. The Commonwealth should secure our rights, not curtail them. To that end, I will soon be introducing a bill that repeals the entirety of the present Abortion Control Act, replacing it with the Bodily Autonomy Act, a very thorough rewrite of existing law that undoes all of the unnecessary restrictions on access to care, adds affirmative protections for the right to choose, and continues to ensure that all procedures are done safely. Please join me in co-sponsoring The Bodily Autonomy Act. |
Introduced as HB2877