{"id":62017,"date":"2025-12-16T05:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62017\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T05:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:14:11","slug":"pa-house-to-vote-harmful-abortion-bills-the-week-before-christmas-diocese-of-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62017\/","title":{"rendered":"PA House to Vote Harmful Abortion Bills the Week Before Christmas \u2013 Diocese of Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-125219\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Picture2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"136\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Pro-abortion bills are bad anytime of the year, but during this season when we celebrate the birth of the Christ child, the House has scheduled a package of SEVEN pro-abortion bills. Rather than embracing life and celebrating a time of good will to all, pro-abortion forces in the House have chosen death and division. Please contact your state Representative today and ask them to vote no.<\/p>\n<p>These bills would:<br \/>\u2022 Provide a legal \u201cshield\u201d for abortionists and stop victims\u2019 families from seeking justice (HB 1640, HB 1641, HB 1643, and HB 1966)<br \/>\u2022 Remove safety rails, like informed consent and the 24-hour waiting period (HB 2005)<br \/>\u2022 Be used as a tool to prosecute those who peacefully communicate and offer resources outside abortion clinics (HB 670)<br \/>\u2022 Enshrine abortion in our Commonwealth\u2019s constitution, effectively allowing abortion until birth, removing parental consent, and forcing taxpayers to pay for elective abortions (HB 1957)<\/p>\n<p>Click the link below to log in and send your message:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.votervoice.net\/BroadcastLinks\/aOOJ6-UpyM8WywiCV44bwg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.pacatholic.org\/resources\/voter-voice\/?vvsrc=%2fCampaigns%2f132155%2fRespond<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion bills are bad anytime of the year, but during this season when we celebrate the birth of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-62017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}