This bill opens the door to criminalizing abortion in Pennsylvania. It legislates that human life begins at conception.

Its provisions include the following: Forcing doctors to explain in detail, to the woman, the effect of abortion on the fetus, using color photos of a fetus before and after an abortion. A mandatory waiting period of up to seventy-two hours before the abortion can be performed. No public employee would be covered for the costs of an abortion under their health plan. Payments for abortion costs in existing collective bargaining agreements would be discontinued. The father must be notified before the abortion.  
 
September 17, 1956
Sept. 11—As the white-supremacist violence against the opening of desegregated schools appears to have died down, two facts stand out. (1) The racist mobs succeeded in Mansfield and Texarkana, Texas, and in Sturgis, Kentucky, in preventing integration. (2) The amount of desegregation undertaken by the authorities on this, the third, school opening since the Supreme Court decision, is less, not more than in the previous years.

Only one large community—Louisville, Kentucky—is integrating its schools this year. All the other integration attempts involved mere handfuls of Negro school children. This may be seen from the fact that in the five communities where violence flared a total of only 37 Negro students were involved.  
 
September 19, 1931
For the first time since the famous Nore mutiny of British seamen, some 12,000 sailors of the Atlantic fleet of the largest navy in the world have been drawn into a mutinous action only little less sensational than the uprising of the Chilean navy men a few days ago. From one of the strongest traditional arms of British imperialism, the navy, has unexpectedly come one of the sharpest rebukes to the new “National Government” and a rejection of its reactionary “economy plan.”

Right on the eve of the regular Atlantic maneuvers of the British fleet, the sailors not only refused to weigh anchor, but threatened the officers that if the latter raised one anchor, the men would drop the other. The offices of the fleet found themselves helpless before this outspoken and courageous insubordination which was cheered by the thousands of sailors…  
 
 
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