Allyson Schwartz: Too Extreme for Pennsylvania
by Marjorie Dannenfelser & Mike Geer
In March, Politico’s Maggie Haberman speculated
that the upcoming gubernatorial race between Pennsylvania Republican
Governor Tom Corbett and his likely Democratic challenger, U.S.
Representative Allyson Schwartz, may be the next front in the so-called
“war on women.”
Haberman noted, however, that Schwartz won’t be sounding the charge herself. And there’s a good reason for that.
For over a decade, Schwartz was the executive director of an abortion
clinic in Philadelphia, the Elizabeth Blackwell Women’s Health Center.
Under her direction, the clinic — which is now run by Planned Parenthood
— provided first-trimester abortions, as evidenced by a lawsuit it was a party to in 1995.
This matters because the governor of Pennsylvania has the power to
enforce — or not enforce — abortion regulations. One of Corbett’s
predecessors, the pro-choice Republican Tom Ridge, didn’t enforce laws
mandating abortion clinic inspections. That’s part of the reason
Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell was able to get away with
killing as many as several hundred babies that had survived late-term
abortions. (This week, Gosnell was convicted of murdering three newborn
infants. He was also convicted of involuntary manslaughter of one
patient.) Inspections would have stopped Gosnell and his staff in their
tracks, but the facility avoided inspection for 17 years!
This is the real “war on women.”
Marjorie Dannenfelser is the president of the Susan B. Anthony List. Michael Geer is the president of the Pennsylvania Family Institute.
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