Bills To Restrict Abortion Rights Advanced In Pennsylvania

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans who control Pennsylvania’s Legislature began Tuesday to advance hot-button bills to restrict abortion rights and expand gun rights, although the bills faced opposition by Democratic lawmakers and certain veto by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf.
In the House Health Committee, Republicans passed two bills on a party-line basis to further restrict abortion rights.
One would restrict abortion after the detection of a fetal heartbeat, the first time such a bill