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Donald Trump did this.
He intentionally packed the Supreme Court, to over-turn 50 years of precedent. Thus creating this chaos where women no longer have bodily autonomy. In Florida, thanks to Trump and his Supreme Court, that choice has NOW reverted back “to the state” ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy took effect in Florida on Wednesday just after midnight.
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Abortion providers in Florida worked to see as many patients as possible in the weeks before the ban took effect. They said some patients were confused about Florida’s restrictions and timelines, especially given that about a year has passed since Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the six-week ban. The policy had been temporarily blocked ahead of a state Supreme Court ruling last month that cleared the way for it to become law.
Florida also requires two in-person visits to a clinic, 24 hours apart, ahead of an abortion — a rule some patients don’t know about.
www.nbcnews.com — May 1, 2024
Either the extremists, behind this rights rollback, just don’t know how human biology works, or they just don’t care. But let VP Harris explain it ...
In a speech in Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday, the vice-president, Kamala Harris, lamented that “as of this morning, 4 million women in this state woke up with fewer reproductive freedoms than they had last night.
“This is a fight for freedom – the fundamental freedom to make decisions about one’s own body and not have their government tell them what they’re supposed to do.”
Harris, who has become the Biden campaign’s foremost messenger on abortion, continued: “Starting this morning, women in Florida became subject to an abortion ban so extreme it applies before many women even know they are pregnant. Which, by the way, tells us the extremists who wrote this ban either don’t know how a woman’s body works or they simply don’t care.”
www.theguardian.com — May 1, 2024
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Here’s one Floridian who is not taking this outrageous rights reversal, without a fight.
MIAMI — Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, the leading Democratic candidate to take on Florida Sen. Rick Scott this fall, said she would support pushing aside the Senate filibuster in order to pass a handful of policy measures, including federal protections for abortion.
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Mucarsel-Powell's statement comes amid broader Democratic efforts to link their 2024 campaigns and abortion rights, both in terms of federal policy platforms and the abortion rights ballot measures that will go before voters in a number of states this fall, including Florida. And while Democratic performance has slid in Florida in recent years, a number of polls there have shown broad support there for abortion rights, even as state Republicans enacted a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, one of the stricter limits nationwide.
www.nbcnews.com — May 1, 2024
THREE REASONS to help Defeat Rick Scott — by supporting Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, as Florida’s next U.S. Senator ($$$ via ActBlue).
Debbie Jessika Mucarsel-Powell (/ˈmuːkɑːrsɛl/ MOO-kar-sell; born January 18, 1971)[1] is an American politician and academic administrator who served as a U.S. representative for Florida's 26th congressional district from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, her district covered the southern part of Miami-Dade County, including Homestead, as well as the Florida Keys. Mucarsel-Powell was the first Ecuadorian American and first South American-born immigrant to serve as a member of the U.S. Congress.
en.wikipedia.org
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Let’s turn Florida back into a swing state. It’s way overdue.
www.pewresearch.org
In Florida, there will be a LOT more than Democracy, that’s on the ballot this year.
We had best make the most of it.
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2023 and 2024 abortion-related ballot measures — ballotpedia.org
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Harris: Women in Florida 'woke up with fewer reproductive freedoms'
NBC News — May 1, 2024
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