--No abortion shall be performed or induced except with the voluntary and informed consent of the woman upon whom the abortion is to be performed or induced. The high court issued a resounding win for abortion clinics challenging a ban on using Medicaid funding for the procedure.Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection and Other Rights. Pennsylvania's Abortion Control Act permits the procedure up to 24 weeks of gestation. The Court's decimation of 50 years of precedent requires a rebuilding of jurisprudence to align with the promise of the Fourteenth Amendment. Wade, the Supreme Court decided that the right to privacy implied in the 14th Amendment protected abortion as a fundamental right. In 1973, the Supreme Court held in Roe v. To save reproductive freedom in Pennsylvania, we must block an anti-abortion constitutional amendment Senate Bill 956. Legislatures began protecting the lives of human beings in the womb long before American independence. Amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in the.