The Pennsylvania State Senate voted 37 to 12 today to pass Senate Bill 3.
The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires states to operate and maintain “health insurance exchanges” to provide a menu of low cost, government subsidized insurance plans which will help otherwise uninsured people get access to necessary health care. The PPACA specifically permits a state to prohibit insurance providers that participate in the state exchange from covering elective abortion services. To assure that elective abortion is not included in the Pennsylvania exchange, the Commonwealth must affirmatively opt out by passing a state law.
Senate Bill 3 allows Pennsylvania to prohibit insurance providers that participate in the insurance exchanges from covering elective abortion services.
Senate Bill 3 will clearly prohibit taxpayer-supported insurance plans from covering abortion.
Please contact your legislator to say “thank you” for making this important pro-life vote!
Here is a list of Senators who voted “yes” on Senate Bill 3:
- Alloway, Richard L., II (R) – District 33
- Argall, David G. (R) – District 29
- Baker, Lisa (R) – District 20
- Blake, John P. (D) – District 22
- Boscola, Lisa M. (D) – District 18
- Brewster, James R. (D) – District 45
- Browne, Patrick M. (R) – District 16
- Brubaker, Mike (R) – District 36
- Corman, Jake (R) – District 34
- Eichelberger, John H. (R) – District 30
- Erickson, Edwin B. (R) – District 26
- Folmer, Mike (R) – District 48
- Gordner, John R. (R) – District 27
- Greenleaf, Stewart J. (R) – District 12
- Kasunic, Richard A (D) – District 32
- McIlhinney, Charles T., Jr. (R) – District 10
- Mensch, Bob (R) – District 24
- Orie, Jane Clare (R) – District 40
- Piccola, Jeffrey E. (R) – District 15
- Pileggi, Dominic (R) – District 9
- Pippy, John (R) – District 37
- Rafferty, John C., Jr. (R) – District 44
- Robbins, Robert D. (R) – District 50
- Scarnati, Joseph B., III (R) – District 25
- Smucker, Lloyd K. (R) – District 13
- Solobay, Timothy J. (D) – District 46
- Stack, Michael J. (D) – District 5
- Tomlinson, Robert M. (R) – District 6
- Vance, Patricia H. (R) – District 31
- Vogel, Elder A., Jr. (R) – District 47
- Ward, Kim L. (R) – District 39
- Waugh, Michael L. (R) – District 28
- White, Donald C. (R) – District 41
- White, Mary Jo (R) – District 21
- Wozniak, John N. (D) – District 35
- Yaw, Gene (R) – District 23
- Yudichak, John T. (D) – District 14
