The Florida Legislature is moving with terrifying efficiency to cut off abortion access in one of the last remaining refuges for women seeking care in the South.
access in one of the last remaining refuges for women seeking care in the South. Florida currently restricts abortion to 15 weeks gestation, but bills being rushed through the Senate and House this week would ban the procedure at six weeks — a proposal that opponents say amounts to a total ban when paired with existing state law.
With a Republican supermajority in both chambers, and an ambitious, attention-hungry governor with designs on the White House, the ban looks poised to sail through both chambers and land on GovernorPublic testimony on Thursday was limited to just 15 seconds per person before it was eliminated together, as the House version of the ban was considered in committee.
Rep. Anna Eskamani, a Democrat, was appalled. “They call themselves pro-life, but are willing to take away healthcare from kids” over the abortion ban. Thursday’s rushed hearing stood in stark contrast to the last committee hearing on the Senate version of the ban, which coincided with the lobby day for an influential anti-abortion advocacy organization, the Florida Family Policy Council. Stephanie Loraine Pineiro, executive director of the Florida Access Network, testified at that hearing. “The room was packed with a bunch of anti-abortion volunteers and on that day testimony wasn’t cut short,” Pineiro says.
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