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Hey, whatever happened to the idea of "limited government," and getting state regulations and bureaucracy out of our hair? I suppose all's fair when it comes to adding new state regulations to control things we don't personally like.

These days, Harrisburg is all about targeting gays, immigrants and women, and relaxing Pennsylvania's already weak handgun laws.

Needless to say, Mexican lesbians who want abortions and gun control must scare the crap out of state Reps. Ted Harhai (R-Monessen), Rick Saccone (R-Elizabeth) and Daryl Metcalfe (R-Cranberry).

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State Senate Republicans engaged in fraudulent lawmaking this week when they passed a bill that creates a far bigger problem than it purports to resolve.

It shamefully adopted a law to discourage voting under the guise of fighting vote fraud.

The bill will require all voters to present photo identification when voting. As lawmakers know, many young, older and poor voters don't have those requisite IDs. As the lawmakers also know, those voters lean Democratic. -- Scranton Times-Tribune

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An anti-marriage bill from Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Cranberry), is up for discussion and potential vote tomorrow before a state House government committee that Metcalfe chairs.

The bill, according to Metcalfe's web site, would amend the state's constitution ... Same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania is already illegal. But as Ted Martin, executive director at Equality PA points out, "this bill is much worse and meaner."

Martin says that if it passed, future discussion of civil unions or domestic partnerships "would be off the table." And, it would forcefully terminate domestic partnership benefits provided to public employees. --- Pittsburgh City Paper

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Pennsylvania has become the latest among a growing number of states to make the transvaginal ultrasound probe a pawn in the abortion debate. The bill had been slated for a House floor debate this week. It has stalled, but it's not dead.

"I have fought too many battles, too much discrimination and harassment, and I've watched how hard women have worked to get equality," said Dr. Sherry Blumenthal, chairwoman of the Pennsylvania section of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "I have strong feelings about anyone trying to tell us how to handle our own reproduction." --- Harrisburg Patriot-News

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