Pennsylvania Governor Wolfe Vetoed a Pro-Life Bill in Time for the Feast of the Nativity

           Pennsylvania’s liberal Democratic Governor, Tom Wolfe, a few days ago, late in the Advent season before today’s Feast of the Nativity of the Christ Child and a little over a week before the Feast of the Holy Innocents, vetoed a bill approved by the General Assembly to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks gestation of the fetus, four weeks earlier than under the Commonwealth’s current law. 

In apparent contradictions about personhood, the acknowledgement of which is essential for liberty, the remains of a fetus of at least 16 weeks gestation are treated equally under the Pennsylvania’s Vital Records law with those of human beings who were born alive and the Commonwealth also has a fetal homicide law.

            On a positive note, Wolf did sign two less controversial bills into law that were authored by Legislators from Berks County, my county of residence.  One required owners of cemeteries to allow public access to them, which was necessary after a local citizen acquired a cemetery and prevented family members from visiting their relatives’ graves, and one to regulate previously-unregulated drug rehabilitation half-way houses, after several recent overdose deaths a local facility. 

           It is hoped and prayed for that the commemoration of the Nativity of the Child Jesus would increase people’s respect for the right to life, in all of its forms and stages, throughout the world.