HB 2050 ok'd by PA House, moves on to Senate
 The bill to help protect babies with Down syndrome, HB 2050, c
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eared the Pennsylvania House of Representatives yesterday by a resounding, veto-proof, bipartisan vote of 139-56.
The measure will be taken up next by the Pennsylvania Senate. All eyes will be on Erie's first-term, Republican state senator, Sen. Dan Laughlin, when the bill comes to a vote in the upper house of the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
Northwestern Pennsylvania Representatives Voting
FOR HB 2050
Lee James (R-64)
Mark Longietti (D-7)
Tedd Nesbit (R-8)
Curt Sonney (R-4)
Kathy Rapp (R-65)
Brad Roae (R-6)
Parke Wentling (R-17)
Northwestern Pennsylvania Representatives Voting
AGAINST HB 2050
Ryan Bizzarro (D-3)
Northwestern Pennsylvania Representatives
NOT VOTING on HB 2050
Florindo Fabrizio (D-2)
Pat Harkins (D-1)
A vote against this modest legislation seems especially bone chilling when you consider that the bill will not, in fact, make it impossible to terminate babies with Down syndrome.
HB 2015 only ensures that babies who are members of the Down syndrome community are not targeted for elimination expressly for the "crime" of having this particular handicap.
ACTION REQUEST
Please call and e-mail Pennsylvania state Senator Dan Laughlin, or perhaps pay a visit to his office, and urge him to vote
YES on House Bill 2050, the Down Syndrome Protection Legislation.
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State Senator Dan Laughlin
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Sen. Dan Laughlin (R)
Senatorial District 49
[email protected]
District Office
1314 Griswold Plaza, Suite 100
Erie, PA 16501
Phone: (814) 453-2515
Capitol Office
Senate Box 203049
535 Main Capitol Building
Harrisburg, PA 17120-3049
Phone: (717) 787-8927
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
House Bill 2050, would prohibit abortion in cases where the baby's life would be terminated solely because he or she has been diagnosed with Down syndrome, a relatively common (1 in 350) "disability."
It is estimated that currently in the United States approximately 90% of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome are aborted.
Pennsylvania law already protects babies from abortions that would be carried out solely because the parents want a boy instead of a girl or a girl instead of a boy.
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