To escape having to define “woman” in a resolution honoring women, Pennsylvania House Democrats shelved a vote to designate March as “National Women’s Month” on Tuesday.
“They pulled it because they were scared to define what a woman actually is," Republican state Rep. Aaron Bernstine said Wednesday, commenting on Democrat House Speaker Joanna McClinton’s decision to table the resolution, rather than address his proposed amendment.
When Speaker McClinton brought up the resolution (HR 390) for a vote, Bernstine offered an amendment to add the definition of who it is they would be honoring. After briefly silencing her microphone and consulting her colleagues, McClinton declared the resolution temporarily “off,” ostensibly to give Democrats time to regroup and devise a strategy to reintroduce it without having to define what constitutes a woman.
Speaker McClinton’s response to the proposed amendment prompted laughter among some in attendance.
"If Democrats want to celebrate what they refuse to define, it is clear they do not take this issue seriously," a spokesman for the Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus told Fox News Digital.
Berstine said it shouldn’t be controversial to define a woman based on biology (having XX chromosomes).
The resolution was intended to piggyback off March’s “National Women’s History Month” by creating a state-level month “celebrating the extraordinary accomplishments of women,” according to the bill’s sponsor, Democrat state Rep. Carol Hill-Evans.
