PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania has joined New York, New Jersey and Connecticut in offering protections for out-of-state women seeking reproductive health services, including abortion, as roughly half of U.S. states ban or work to impose restrictions on abortion.
“Here in Pennsylvania, I will not stand for this attack on women and pregnant people,” said Gov. Tom Wolf in a statement Tuesday.
The executive order and its protections are set to take immediate effect and come weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which returned the issue of abortion to the states. But unlike some states that have passed so-called safe-haven laws through their legislatures, Pennsylvania only has an executive order. And the gubernatorial election in November will determine whether it remains in place.
