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Pennsylvania Gov. Vows to Veto Any Abortion Ban Bill

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (Matt Rourke/AP)

By    |   Friday, 17 May 2019 02:26 PM EDT

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, has vowed to veto any “any anti-choice bill that lands on my desk,” in reaction to recent bills in several states seeking to ban abortion.

"I just want you to know, that if a such bill were to ever come to my desk, I would veto it," Wolf said in a video released on Twitter Thursday.


Wolf added in the caption that he is "appalled by legislation in Alabama, Georgia, and even here in Pennsylvania that limits a woman's right to choose."

 "I'll veto any anti-choice bill that lands on my desk. I won't let our commonwealth go backward on reproductive rights," he wrote.

The Pennsylvania House recently passed a bill banning abortions when based on a prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis, but a similar bill failed to pass in the state Senate last year. In 2017, the governor vetoed a bill that would have made it a crime to perform an abortion after 20 weeks.

Ohio and George recently passed bills that would ban abortion after about six weeks. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a law on Wednesday that places strict penalties on doctors who perform an abortion.

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, has vowed to veto any “any anti-choice bill that lands on my desk,” in reaction to recent bills in several states seeking to ban abortion.
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Friday, 17 May 2019 02:26 PM
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