Tue Sep 13, 2022 – 8:03 pm EDT
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (LifeSiteNews) – The Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied a request from pro-abortion Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf to stop Senate Bill 106, which would introduce several proposed amendments to the state constitution, including one that says there is no constitutional right to abortion or guarantee for taxpayer-funded abortion.
In an order delivered Monday, the court stated that it rejected Wolf’s request to exercise its King’s Bench power, or a power that asserts the court could hear a case notwithstanding any dispute in a lower court.
The Supreme Court implied in its order that Wolf could challenge the bill in a Commonwealth Court, which normally is the first to hear challenges to legislation, The Epoch Times reported. The court did not give a reason for its refusal to grant Wolf’s request.
Wolf sued the state legislature in July in response to the passage of the bill with party-line majorities in both houses of the state legislature. He argued that the state legislature could not propose more than one constitutional amendment in a single piece of legislation under Article XI of the Pennsylvania constitution, and that because the amendments were
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