HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania Family Council is strongly disappointed following yesterday’s narrow Pennsylvania House vote advancing House Bill 1957, an extreme constitutional amendment that would enshrine abortion on demand into the Pennsylvania Constitution and...
UPDATED 12/19/25 For William Penn, laws were meant to restrain vice and encourage virtue: to “terrify evil-doers” and “to cherish those that do well.” St. Thomas Aquinas likewise taught that laws are meant to form virtue, not merely permit behavior, warning that...
The Life Amendment, Senate Bill 956, would prevent judges from forcing taxpayers to pay for elective abortions. (HARRISBURG, PA - January 25, 2022) Most Pennsylvanians oppose taxpayer funding of abortion, and yet, today, the threat of a court-imposed...
Abortion is one of the gravest evils plaguing our society today. Not only does every abortion take an innocent life, it also permanently harms the mother, father, and society as a whole. The awful Roe v Wade made abortion on-demand legal through all nine months of...
Momentum is favoring the preborn child. Last week, SB 956 formally took shape. It is a “Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania, providing that there is no right to abortion or funding for an abortion.” This bill and the...
Thanks to your support, the PA Family policy team has been hard at work at the Capitol this week, fighting against a push from the abortion industry to get the Pennsyvlania Supreme Court to do their dirty work. Abortion clinics throughout the state have...
By Michael Geer, PA Family President On Friday, March 6, 2020, Gov. Tom Wolf signed a 90-day emergency disaster declaration, giving him very broad, sweeping powers over day-to-day life in Pennsylvania. This emergency declaration was in response to an impending...
"A federal judge overseeing a dispute over death benefits between the parents and "wife" of a deceased Cozen O'Connor partner has requested the parties address the constitutional question of same-sex marriage, increasing the potential for a determination of whether...