City Council: With Our Work Done, It’s Vacation Time!

Woohoo! After one week as a “pro-choice city,” Philadelphia is now no longer one, as many of the people who voted for the bill decided it was more important to pander to angry Catholic constituents than stand by their convictions. Hooray!

The city wasn’t declared both a pro-choice and pro-life city, but instead the week-old resolution was simply rescinded. “I’m angry with myself for not abstaining,” said Councilman Jim Kenney, who voted yes last week. “It’s not something I think we should have forced on the public at large.” Or he got a lot of angry phone calls.

Blondell Reynolds Brown, who sponsored the original legislation, clearly got a lot of angry phone calls, too, but told everyone who disagrees with her she’s actually the only one who could possibly be correct: “I have learned as an enlightened pro-choice advocate that there may have been other ways to make my position known.”

Meanwhile, City Council passed over 80 bills, giving almost all of them less debate or discussion than the meaningless repeal of the meaningless resolution. And now they’re on vacation until September! Good work, guys! You earned that summer break!

Council repeals ‘pro-choice city’ resolution [Inquirer]