Why Rep Davidson Voted for SB 732

Dec 16, 2011 | 0 comments

From Philadelphia Inquirer:

Standing on the floor of the state House, her voice choked with emotion, the first-term Democratic legislator from Upper Darby explained why she had just voted for the bill tightening regulations for abortion clinics.

State Rep. Margo L. Davidson said her 22-year-old cousin had been a victim of Kermit Gosnell.

Semika Shaw was “just coming into her own as a young woman,” Davidson said, when she died in 2002 from an infection caused by a botched abortion in Gosnell’s West Philadelphia clinic.

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