In recent weeks, Judicial battles for mifepriston, One of the two drugs used in the abortion of drugs, which are often called the “abortion tablet”, took the central place. On Wednesday, The Federal Court of Appeal ruled that the tablet may remain on the market, while legal cases are ongoing, although with strict new restrictions.
After the Senate Florida approved the proposed six -week ban last week, the leader of the minority in the Senate of Florida Loren protested with demonstrators for abortion rights outside the Capitol of the state in Tallahassi. During the protest, the democratic legislator was arrested with almost a dozen others and accused of violation after he refused to leave the demonstration, according to GuardianField
“With the adoption of this dangerous prohibition, the Republicans decided to ignore the requests of women and doctors who trust their care – including two mothers in my own area, forced to the verge of death after miscarriages from the current limiting laws of the state,” the Buzzfeed News statement said. “Now everything will become much worse. Women were deprived of their rights and access to saving medical care. Women will undoubtedly die. This is not freedom. ”
In addition to an abortion, an account also allocates $ 25 million a year for pregnancy centers against abortion. Planned parenthood has People warned Seeking that these centers are controlled by “activists against abortions, who have a dubious, harmful agenda to scare, ashamed or put pressure on you from abortion and tell a lie about abortion, control over birth rate and sexual health.”
“Since they do not provide legal medical care, they are not related to state and federal laws on confidentiality.” said Laura Gudkhu, Executive Director of the Floridan Alliance of Branches of the Planned Parenthood. “Florida, who mistakenly went to these centers, when they needed help, said that they were lying about the development of pregnancy in order to prevent their abortion in other places, having received false information about the safety of abortion and control over birth rate; And even the presence of relatives, partners or employers contacted to try to intimidate them from the abortion. ”
Before the ward voted on Thursday afternoon, representatives of the Democrats filed more than 50 amendmentsincluding additional proposed exceptions, as well as offer The State Member of the House of Representatives of Rita Harris, which would require the Ministry of Health to conduct an annual independent financial audit of crisis pregnancy centers receiving $ 25 million. None of the amendments I went to the house.
The defenders of abortion say that if the bill enters into force, the ban will disproportionately affect people who live in rural communities, people with low incomes, people with limited capabilities and color people.
“This legislation will give the government even greater power over the bodily autonomy of the Floridas and everyone in the south who have long relied on the state as a safe asylum for reproductive assistance,” said Diamond Delence, the Black Organization’s manager in the “planned parenthood” of the southern, eastern and northern Florida, in the statement of BuzzFeed News. “This bill will have a particularly destructive effect on black and brown communities that are already faced with obstacles to access to basic healthcare and are almost three times more likely to die during childbirth.”
Jamara Amani, the executive director of the southern network of justice, the non -profit organization of mother’s health, said in a statement about BuzzFeed News that “for this ban, which should be accepted during the week of black health, sends a message that the state of Florida does not care about the health of mothers and births,” adding that the prohibition “unreasonable human rights and human rights and human rights and human rights Digrips from pregnant people. “
“Being a black woman who survived the heritage of my ancestors, enslaved as property and is forced to reproduce,” said Amani, “it is important to boldly say that my body and my choice are mine, not the government.”
