PENNSYLVANIA

Gov. Shapiro working to expand the abortion industry-despite its abysmal safety record in Pennsylvania

The pro-abortion bait-and-switch is now complete in Pennsylvania. Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro's Administration has taken the money that for 28 years supported life-affirming pregnancy care centers and transferred it to pro-abortion organizations.

Back in the summer, the state Senate, which is led by pro-life lawmakers, agreed to a budget deal which increased funding to pregnancy resource centers by two million dollars. However, as soon as the Governor signed the budget, he announced that he was canceling the contract of Real Alternatives at the end of the year.

The Shapiro Administration has taken the money that was used for alternatives to abortion for 28 years and re-directed it to organizations that promote abortion.

At the end of December, the Administration canceled its contract with Real Alternatives, which has funded pregnancy resource centers, adoption agencies, and maternity homes throughout Pennsylvania for the better part of three decades.

It has now taken that public money and shifted it to four abortion-promoting groups: Adagio Health, Maternity Care Coalition, Family Health Council of Central PA, and Maternal and Family Health Services.

This is outrageous!

Please contact your state lawmakers and let them know you oppose the use of alternatives to abortion funds for pro-abortion organizations. You can send an immediate message to your PA legislator by clicking HERE.

For more background on this situation, please see the National Right to Life story Gov. Shapiro working to expand the abortion industry-despite its abysmal safety record in Pennsylvania.

NATIONAL NEWS

US House passes legislation supporting women experiencing unplanned pregnancies

The House of Representatives passed two bills on Thursday aimed at supporting women and families who are experiencing unplanned pregnancies. The Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act and The Pregnant Students’ Rights Act would provide protection for women from feeling like they have no choice but to kill their preborn children by abortion.

The Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act, sponsored by Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach, would ensure that pregnancy centers cannot be prevented from receiving funding for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF).

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LEGISLATION

Pro-abortion Pennsylvania legislators propose changes that would open the door to another "House of Horrors"

It's been said that those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. That frightening possibility is in play in Pennsylvania, where a group of pro-abortion state representatives is trying to repeal what could be called the Kermit Gosnell Law.

Gosnell was a West Philadelphia abortionist who, as a grand jury noted, “killed babies and endangered women.”

The grand jury report summed up his crime spree this way:

“What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable, babies in the third trimester of pregnancy – and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors.

PRO-LIFE GEN

American youth are in desperate need of pro-life education, new poll suggests

A recent poll conducted by Students for Life of America and the Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement examined abortion beliefs held by registered voters between the ages of 18 and 42. They found that people in these age ranges aren’t as liberal about abortion “rights” as the mainstream media would have us all believe.

According to the article, “only 9% supported the Democratic Party’s radical agenda of abortion through all 9 months without limits, up to and including allowing infanticide.”

One of the most telling things that the study found was that '31% said that they would be more willing to accept limits on abortion if the federal government offered increased support for mothers and their children.'

KNOW THIS

Researchers Discover What We Knew All Along: Abortion Bans Actually Work

In a 2020 opinion piece published by NBC news, Zara Ahmed, Associate Director of Federal Issues for the Guttmacher Institute, claimed, “[Abortion restrictions] aren’t a primary driver in the national decline of abortion rates.”

But the assertion that abortion bans don’t work has been disproved over and over again. Most recently, in November, a new study by the IZA Institute of Labor Economics confirmed, yet again, that abortion bans are effective.

The study showed that states which banned abortion after Dobbs v. Jackson have experienced, on average, a 2.3% increase in babies born relative to states which did not.

Positively Pro-Life! Podcast

Terri Marcroft from the Diocese of Harrisburg joins us for a conversation on the Catholic Church's pro-life activities in honor of Santicty Life Sunday in this latest episode of Positively Pro-Life! Listen to the conversation HERE.

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CHAPTER EVENTS

Feb 25

Pro-Life Banquet

Pennsylvanians For Human Life is hosting their 2024 Celebrate Life banquet on Sunday, Feb 25th with Teresa Tomeo as Keynote Speaker at the Springfield Country Club. For registartions and more details visit www.paforhumanlife.org

May 4

Erie March For Life

No more frostbite at the march! Erie March For Life has been moved to warmer weather and will now take place on May 4, a week in advance of Mother’s Day. Time to be determined. Check out www.peopleforlife.org for more detail.

Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation

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