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Pro-Life Bill Passes House Committee

April 15, 2013
by Blue
HB 818, insurance exchange, obamacare, PPACA, SB 3, taxpayer funded abortion
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House Bill 818, the bill that would ensure taxpayers do not fund abortions through the federal health care exchange administered in PA, was voted out of the House Health Committee today by a vote of 15 to 9.

HB 818 now proceeds to the full House for a vote. An identical piece of legislation, Senate Bill 3, was voted out of committee in the Senate last week.  Send a message to your legislators TODAY asking them to vote “yes” on HB 818 and SB 3!

The House Health Committee vote is as follows:

VOTED YES

Representative Baker (Chair, Tioga)

Representative Corbin (Chester)

Representative Cutler (Lancaster)

Representative Day (Lehigh)

Representative Farry (Bucks)

Representative Gingrich (Lebanon)

Representative Grell (Cumberland)

Representative Hahn (Northampton)

Representative Kauffman (Franklin)

Representative Lawrence (Chester)

Representative Mullery (Luzerne)

Representative Simmons (Northampton)

Representative Stern (Blair)

Representative Toepel (Montgomery)

Representative Toohil (Luzerne)

VOTED NO:

Representative Boyle (Philadelphia)

Representative Brown (Philadelphia)

Representative Clay (Philadelphia)

Representative Daley (Montgomery)

Representative DeLissio (Philadelphia)

Representative Fabrizio (Erie)

Representative O’Brien (Philadelphia)

Representative Petri (Bucks)

Representative Sabatina (Philadelphia)

Representative Schlossberg (Lehigh)

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