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Jessica Valenti - Abortion, Every DayLets talk about what Donald Trump means when he says that abortion will be up to the states: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis administration is threatening television stations that run ads for Amendment 4 with misdemeanor charges. Just when I think Ive lost my ability to be shocked!
The Florida Department of Health sent a letter to WFLA TV, telling its vice president that running the Amendment 4 adwhich features a woman talking about her experience with a doomed pregnancyputs peoples health and lives at risk. The letter threatens that if the station doesnt remove the TV spot, the state will move ahead with legal proceedings and that breaking the law could lead to misdemeanor charges.
It doesnt get more clearcut than this. As Nikki Fried, chair of the Florida Democratic Party, tweeted, Floridians, THIS is not democracy!
We do not live in a free state, free of government interference, free of government intimidation and free of government overreach, she said.
And as journalist Jason Garcia notes, this letter comes at the same time that DeSantis is using taxpayer dollars to run ads attacking Amendment 4 everywhere from ESPN and CNN to the fucking Weather Channel. (Using the power of state agencies to lobby against a citizen initiative is against the law, but a judge ruled in favor of DeSantis regardless last week.)
Heres the ad DeSantis doesnt want Floridians to see:
North Shore Chicago
(3,919 posts)is evil, evil, evil.
Dear men,
Keep your laws, keep your misogyny, OFF women's bodies!
BoRaGard
(2,503 posts)littlemissmartypants
(24,756 posts)dickthegrouch
(3,495 posts)Great British caricature cartoonist.
This reminds me of his appropriately vicious drawings of the iron maiden Maggie thatcher in her day.
littlemissmartypants
(24,756 posts)jaxexpat
(7,568 posts)They are the snails who assume permission granted to wreck the garden. Like most pestilence, they're deaf and sightless, carelessly careening on a slime of misinformation, smugly confident in the shell of lies they tell themselves. They do, however, grow scarce in daylight, hiding in the shadowed dampness, away from sunshine.
scarletlib
(3,473 posts)Old Crank
(4,429 posts)You have to bow to DeSantis.
markodochartaigh
(1,838 posts)freedom means the freedom to say and do what they tell us to say and do.
mucifer
(24,610 posts)didn't have an abortion. She was going to a Christian hospital and they agreed to do it after an ethics consult.
multigraincracker
(33,805 posts)See Numbers 5: 11-32. The test for an unfaithful wife.
The Bible never mentions conception. Many times it speaks of The Breath of Life as when life begins.
Just saying.
tornado34jh
(1,243 posts)Got something to hide, Governor? Also, while we are at it, how much are you willing to bet that he probably secretly had an abortion done with someone in his family? Most of the ones who say want this ban probably have done so secretly, bunch of hypocrites.
twodogsbarking
(12,035 posts)ScratchCat
(2,323 posts)Because I'd really love to see how the Florida Department of Health is threatening a tv station with misdemeanor charges. That doesn't even make any sense on any level.
Linda ladeewolf
(275 posts)Should not be infinite. You can yell fire in a crowded theater. Nor should you be able to tell lies about a political opponent or about medical facts. Freedom of speech is a sacred right, but there should be a written law of responsibility added to that. Perhaps call it freedom of fair speech. You can tell lies in court, it is a right, but you will be charged with perjury. These lies about abortion should be punishable because they are causing deaths. We seriously need to modify some parts or just update the constitution but not while we have this Supreme Court. The Supreme Court needs to be expanded and made a bit less powerful.
LetMyPeopleVote
(153,232 posts)malaise
(276,768 posts)Did his wife tie off her tubes after her last child and the cancer diagnosis?