Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is Trying to Become the Most Pro-Abortion Governor in America

The lives of thousands of preborn children—and the well-being of their mothers—are at stake in this pivotal election year.

By Maria Gallagher
Life News

Democrat Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania seems to be competing for the title of most pro-abortion Governor in the U.S.

The former Planned Parenthood clinic escort doubled down on his support for the abortion industry with a campaign appearance before abortion advocates this week.

While he talks about women having control over their own “health care,” Wolf remains one of the Keystone State’s leading apologists for Big Abortion. Wolf opposes any and all protections for preborn children. He famously stood against a popular proposed ban on dismemberment abortions, which would have stopped the gruesome practice in which living babies are torn limb by limb from their mothers’ wombs.

His staff has said he would also veto the Down Syndrome Protection Act, which would ban the abortion of preborn babies for the sole reason of a Down syndrome diagnosis. The bill won a solid veto-proof, bipartisan majority in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives earlier this year and is now awaiting action in the Pennsylvania Senate.

In sharp contrast, Wolf’s Republican challenger, former state Senator Scott Wagner, amassed an impressive 100 percent pro-life voting record while serving in the state legislature. Unlike Wolf, Wagner supports a ban on taxpayer funding of organizations, such as Planned Parenthood, which perform abortions. Wagner was also instrumental in ensuring that the state enforce abortion center health and safety regulations in the wake of the Kermit Gosnell tragedy in West Philadelphia.

Gosnell, who owned what was famously described as a “House of Horrors,” is serving three life sentences for deliberately delivering three babies alive and then “snipping” their spinal cords. Gosnell was also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Karnamaya Mongar.

In a statement to television station NBC 10 in Philadelphia, the Wagner campaign said, 

“While Tom Wolf is being funded by a group that prioritizes abortions, and has vetoed pro-life bills on their behalf, Scott has a strong record standing up for the unborn in the Senate and will sign pro-life legislation as Governor.”

Wolf is endorsed by the political arm of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion operation. Wagner has won the endorsement of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation PAC.

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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf Defends Killing Babies in Dismemberment Abortions

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf

By Maria Gallagher

Life News

What is most significant about Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s recent column for the editors of Time magazine is what the politician does not say (See here for the Governor’s perplexing piece.).

The op-ed ostensibly addresses PA Senate Bill 3, but it utterly fails to explain what the legislation is about. SB 3 is a commonsense measure which would ban the brutal practice of dismemberment abortions. In these particularly gruesome abortions, living babies are violently torn limb by limb from their mothers’ wombs, usually in the second trimester of pregnancy.

Wolf’s op-ed does not mention that a Communication Concepts poll conducted statewide in 2015 found that the vast majority of Pennsylvanians—Republicans, Democrats, and Independents—support a ban on ghastly dismemberment abortions. 

In fact, support for the ban was higher among women than men. A decisive 64 percent of female respondents backed the ban, while 58 percent of males supported a dismemberment ban.  Even in Pennsylvania’s abortion capital—Philadelphia—56 percent of all respondents agreed a ban was necessary.

Nowhere in the Governor’s column do you find the words of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy—considered a “swing” vote on the abortion issue on the Court—who wrote, 

“No one would dispute that, for many, D & E (dismemberment abortion) is a procedure itself laden with the power to devalue human life.” (Emphasis added)

Justice Kennedy wrote those words in the Supreme Court ruling Gonzales v. Carhart, the 2007 decision which upheld the federal ban on the equally outrageous practice known as partial-birth abortion.

Nowhere in the Governor’s column do you find the words of Dr. Jay Kellinson, an abortionist who once said of dismemberment abortion, 

“That is the most horrifying procedure I can think about. There is just absolutely no way I would ever do that.”

And nowhere in the Governor’s column do you find the words of former abortionist Dr. George Flesh, who wrote, 

“Tearing a developed fetus apart, limb by limb, is an act of depravity that society should not permit. We cannot afford such a devaluation of human life, nor the desensitization of medical personnel it requires.” (My emphasis)

Nor does the Governor mention that previously he volunteered as a clinic escort for Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion operation (which commits more than 320,000 abortions a year). Therefore, not surprisingly, his column is a regurgitation of abortion industry talking points. In the Time piece, he does concede he doesn’t “pretend to know what’s best for a woman and her health.”

Certainly, being torn violently from her mother’s womb so she bleeds to death is not advantageous for the health of a baby girl.

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