Pennsylvania’s state Senate on Friday passed a bill to amend the state’s constitution to declare that there is no constitutional right to taxpayer-funded abortion nor other rights to abortion in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The proposed Senate Bill 106 will now go to the state House for a vote. If it passes the lower chamber, it will be on the ballot in November.
Blair County Republican Sen. Judy Ward, the bill’s sponsor, said the measure simply maintains the status quo.
In 1985, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that the state constitution does not require taxpayer funding of abortions, in line with federal precedent….