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Support for Baker's abortion bill grows in the Senate
Baker's bill passed in the House last week, 148-43. But the question remains: Will it survive in the more moderate Senate?
Support for Baker's abortion bill grows in the Senate
Support is building in the state Senate for Rep. Matt Baker's very controversial House bill regulating abortion clinics. Baker says the bill would protect women against another Kermit Gosnell, the notorious abortion doctor charged with eight counts of murder — but pro-choice advocates argue that it's an anti-abortion bill in disguise that would only end up creating more Gosnells.
Baker's bill passed in the House last week, 148-43. But the question remains: Will it survive in the more moderate Senate? That chamber currently has another post-Gosnell bill in the works, written by Sen. Pat Vance, which is very different from Baker's — and which pro-choice advocates have called "way better" than Baker's piece of legislation.
At least one Senator has now made his support known for Baker's bill: Sen. Bob Mensch, of Bucks County, has introduced an amendment to Vance's bill that would, in short, make it a lot like Baker's legislation. (You can read the amendment here.) Both bills would hold abortion clinics to the same standards as outpatient surgical centers, which require that operating rooms be at least 400 square feet and a nurse always be on duty, among other things.
Pro-choice advocates say these regulations are unnecessary — and unnecessarily costly — and could lead to every clinic in thes state shutting down. In turn, women would turn to more illegal providers like Gosnell, these advocates say. Baker, however, says the regulations would save lives.
The Senate is expected to vote on Vance's bill — and Mensch's amendment — next week.
You can read background on Baker's bill here, and on Vance's here.
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