In recent weeks, The battles of the court on mifepristone, One of the two drugs used in drug abortions, which is often called “abortion pill”, have taken the scene. On Wednesday, A federal court of appeal judged that the pill can remain on the market while legal affairs are continuing, although with new strict restrictions.
After the Florida Senate approved the proposed six-week ban last week, the head of the Florida Senate minority, Lauren Book, protested against proofs of pro-abortion rights outside the State Capitol in Tallahassee. During the demonstration, the Democratic legislator was arrested with nearly a dozen others and accused of intrusion after refusing to leave the demonstration, according to the Tutor.
“With the adoption of this dangerous ban, the Republicans have chosen to ignore women's pleas and doctors were responsible for their care – including two mothers of my own forced district on the verge of false layers due to current restrictive restrictive laws,” Book said in a press release at Buzzfeed News. “Now things will get worse.
In addition to the six-week abortion ban, the bill also allocates $ 25 million each year to anti-abortion pregnancy centers. Planned Parenthood A warn of people Looking for abortions that these centers are led by “anti-abortion activists who have a shady and harmful program to frighten, shame or put you pressure to get an abortion and to tell lies about abortion, birth control and sexual health”.
“As they do not provide legitimate medical care, they are not bound by the laws of privacy of states and federals”, ” said Laura Goodhue, Executive Director of Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates. “The Floridians who were mistaken in these centers when they needed help reported having lied about the development of their pregnancy to prevent them from abortion elsewhere; be given false information on the security of abortion and birth control; And even to have parents, partners or employers contacted to try to intimidate them with obtaining an abortion. ”
Before the room voted on Thursday afternoon, the Democratic representatives deposited more than 50 modificationsincluding additional proposed exceptions as well as a proposal By the representative of the State Rita Harris, who would have forced the Ministry of Health to carry out an independent annual financial audit of the crisis pregnancy centers receiving $ 25 million. None of the changes In the house has passed.
Abortion defenders say that if the bill comes into force, the prohibition would have an impact disproportionately people who live in rural communities, low -income people, disabled and people of color.
“This legislation will give the government even more power over the bodily autonomy of the Floridians and all in the South which has been based for a long time on the State as a refuge for reproduction care,” said Diamond Delancey, director of the Black Organization program at Planned Parenthood of South, East and North Florida, in a statement to Buzzfeed News. “This bill would have a particularly devastating impact on black and brown communities, which are already faced with obstacles to access to basic health care and are already almost three times more likely to die during childbirth.”
Jamarah Amani, Executive Director of Southern Birth Justice Network, a non -profit organization in maternal health, said in a Buzzfeed News statement that “for this ban, to be adopted during the week of black maternal health, sent the message that Florida's state does not care about the health of mères and birth”.
“As a black woman who has survived an inheritance of my ancestors being enslaved and forced to reproduce,” said Amani, “it is important to continue to tell boldly that my body and my choices are mine – not the government.”
