15-5231 Bill 62 Special Committee
Amending the City of Allentown Code, Part II, General Legislation, by adding Chapter 474, Regulating Rights and Actions, § 474-3 Enforcement Limitations Regarding Bans of Certain Reproductive Health Care Services, adding a provision that if abortion ever becomes illegal nationwide or in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Council of the City of Allentown instructs all city officials and law enforcement agencies to deprioritize enforcement of any abortion-related crime to the fullest extent possible.
This legislation isn’t telling Allentown to ignore a potential law; ordinance is worded carefully to make sure that city acknowledged the law’s existence. It simply asks police to focus on real public safety threats such as violent crime, arson, rape or homicide. This legislation acknowledges the Allentown police department has more important things to worry about
The police in the city of Allentown have plenty or real crimes to investigate without prosecuting women in desperate situations an or the doctors who help them make difficult medical choices. There may come a time when doctors must act on their conscience to save women's lives in the event of a medical emergency requiring an abortion. They must be protected from prosecution.
Bill 62 restricts enforcement of a potential law. It is not the place of City Council to decide which state and/or federal laws to enforce. Which law is next that you don’t agree with? The City of Allentown should not be encouraging or supporting the murder of innocent babies. Every abortion stops a beating heart It is not the mother’s body, it is a separate individual, a baby.
This legislation isn’t telling Allentown to ignore a potential law; ordinance is worded carefully to make sure that city acknowledged the law’s existence. It simply asks police to focus on real public safety threats such as violent crime, arson, rape or homicide. This legislation acknowledges the Allentown police department has more important things to worry about
The police in the city of Allentown have plenty or real crimes to investigate without prosecuting women in desperate situations an or the doctors who help them make difficult medical choices. There may come a time when doctors must act on their conscience to save women's lives in the event of a medical emergency requiring an abortion. They must be protected from prosecution.
Bill 62 restricts enforcement of a potential law. It is not the place of City Council to decide which state and/or federal laws to enforce. Which law is next that you don’t agree with? The City of Allentown should not be encouraging or supporting the murder of innocent babies. Every abortion stops a beating heart It is not the mother’s body, it is a separate individual, a baby.