Governor Vetoes Bill Outlawing Abortions Over Down Syndrome

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor is vetoing a bill that would prohibit abortions because of a prenatal Down syndrome, a day after it passed the Republican-controlled Legislature. Gov. Tom Wolf rejected the legislation Thursday that had just passed the Senate on a near party-line vote. Pennsylvania law allows abortions up to 24 weeks of pregnancy for any reason except to select a gender. The bill would have added to that prohibition abortions over a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.