Savannah Hulsey Pointer, FISM News
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) is the latest Democratic governor who has publicly declared support for the right to end the lives of unborn children, saying he will work to preserve Americans’ “abortion rights.”
Wolf said Tuesday in a statement that he would seek out ways to protect patients from being prosecuted by their home states when they travel to Pennsylvania to have an abortion, according to ABC 27 News.
The governor signed Executive Order 2022-01 on the same day, ensuring out-of-state residents will have access to abortions in the commonwealth.
Wolf joins the governors of California, Colorado, North Carolina, Washington, Oregon, and others who have made changes to support abortion in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson, which ended federal protections for abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade.
“The Supreme Court’s decision to dismantle Roe v. Wade has invoked fear and uncertainty across our nation but especially in states where access to reproductive health care services is being questioned and, in some cases, banned,” Wolf said.
“Here in Pennsylvania, I will not stand for this attack on women and pregnant people. By signing this executive order, I am affirming that individuals seeking and providing reproductive health services are safe in the commonwealth from discipline and prosecution. Everyone, whether a resident of Pennsylvania or elsewhere, deserves access to health care. As long as I am governor, I will do everything in my power to protect that right.”
The governors of West Coast states California, Oregon, and Washington pledged to make their coast a “safe haven” for out-of-state residents looking for abortions. The governors have spent considerable efforts to create a safe place for the death of the unborn, while seemingly turning a blind eye to their state’s blight of violent crime and rampant substance abuse, which are also causing egregious loss of life, as first reported by Townhall.
These governors created a multi-state commitment to “reproductive freedom” in response to the end of Roe v. Wade, which returned the right to determine abortion regulations to individual states.
“We will not stand on the sidelines as these attacks mount,” the three West Coast governors said about their abortion coalition. They vowed to work against judicial and law enforcement investigations, inquiries, and arrests from across state lines, should such an event arise.
They, like Wolf, promised to refuse “non-fugitive extradition of individuals for criminal prosecution” as related to abortion offenses. He also vowed to not issue subpoenas or summons where there is pending prosecution or where a grand jury investigation has commenced for civil or criminal violation of abortion laws.
California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who has proven to be one of the most liberal governors in the U.S., use alarmist jargon when reacting to the Dobbs decision. He claimed that the Supreme Court and Republican-led states want to “turn back the clock” to a time when “women were not treated as equal citizens under the law.” He called the landmark Dobbs ruling “another devastating step toward erasing the rights and liberties Americans have fought for on battlefields, in courthouses, and in capitals.”
Since the fall of Roe v. Wade, battle lines have been made along state borders, as Republican-led states like Texas, Mississippi, and others enacted “trigger laws” that ban most abortions, criminalizing the act of infanticide and causing abortion providers to face substantial fines, as well as the possibility of jail time.
Mississippi’s trigger law will go into effect on July 7th, as planned.
Read my statement on today’s court ruling. pic.twitter.com/FWLhuChvrB
— Governor Tate Reeves (@tatereeves) July 5, 2022