abortion

Mastriano Said in 2019 That His Bill Would Treat Abortions as Murder

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Doug Mastriano, the far-right Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, indicated in 2019 that women should be charged with murder if they violated a proposed abortion ban, a comment that Democrats on Tuesday highlighted as another example of Mr. Mastriano’s embrace of policies that are well outside the political mainstream. As a state senator in October 2019, he co-sponsored … Read more

Why people in State College and rural north-central Pa. don’t have easy access to in-person abortion services

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STATE COLLEGE — Even though abortion is legal in Pennsylvania, Abby Minor, a Penns Valley resident, said she was shocked by how difficult it was to have the procedure done during the summer of 2013. She called local health providers around Centre County, but none of them were helpful, she said. They didn’t even tell … Read more