“These people are just spouting talking points,” Pavone said.
“Contact Rep. Barnaby and tell him how you feel about this offensive attack on reproductive rights and bodily autonomy,” Eskamani said on Twitter. “Remember we expect MORE anti-abortion bills to be filed, too.”
‘Abortion is Not Health Care’
“The statement by state representative Eskamani is based upon emotion rather than fact,” Alveda King, former state representative for Georgia and niece of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., told The Epoch Times. “As a woman who has learned the hard way that abortion is not healthcare, I can say emphatically that science proves that the best and most healthy way to help a woman is to give her opportunities to birth her children in a healthy way. Any medical procedures whether they be chemical or surgical, that alters a woman’s natural reproductivity will have consequences.”Pavone also insists abortion is not healthcare, which is why Democrats “won’t describe what abortion is.”
“Do me a favor,” Pavone said. “Describe to me how abortions are done. Give me an accurate medical description of the procedure.”
‘Abortion is Death Care’
“Extremist politicians continue to find time for their War on Women,” Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) said on the House floor the day the bill was filed, adding that when she was a police officer, she “put away rapists, stalkers and domestic abusers.”“Now extremist politicians in Texas and my state of Florida are instead trying to empower those same criminals to sue victims if they get an abortion,” Demings charged.
King said, while the crimes of rapists, stalkers, and domestic abusers are “heinous crimes, abortion does nothing to staunch the harmful impact of those criminal actions.”
“The most important thing to remember here is that abortion does not cure those crimes,” King said. “It compounds the grief the mother must bear and then adds the burden of bringing about the death of an innocent child. The child is innocent. Why should the child die?”
Demings also made it clear she believes women should also have the right to have an abortion simply if the pregnancy is an inconvenient result of consensual sex.
“But let me be clear,” Demings continued. “No Florida woman needs to justify her healthcare decisions to anyone. It’s our freedom to decide versus your attempts to control. When I chose to have family, I did not ask my senator, my congressman or my governors for permission. Every woman has the right, the freedom, to make their choice for herself. And to do so based on her own personal, individual circumstances.”
“The issues of abortion and harmful measures and procedures that are offered to women in the name of ’reproductive health care' are often harmful to a woman’s health, well-being and life,” King countered. What should be discussed is a woman’s right to know abortion is death care. Abortion actually kills a human person. Abortion actually affects the body and life of the mother. There are lasting effects from abortion that are often not known for many many years and are certainly not recorded as such by those who provide the abortions.”
‘Abortion Is Not Equity’
“Access to abortion is health care, access to safe abortion is equity, access to safe abortion is racial justice and equal justice and women justice,“ Democratic state Rep. Michele Rayner said at a ”Bans Off My Body“ rally led by Democratic Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried on the steps of Florida’s old Capitol on Tuesday.“Abortion is not equity in that abortion takes the life of an innocent human being,” King refuted. “There is no attorney for the child in the womb for the mother. That makes abortion a crime against humanity and a civil wrong. Because civil law is man-made law, abortion is legal but it’s an act against the life of an innocent human being.”
The Bill
Much like the Texas bill, which was signed into law by Texas Gov. Gregg Abbot in May, the proposed Florida bill requires a physician to conduct a test for the presence of detectable fetal heartbeat and to inform the mother if one is found.If a heartbeat is detected the measure prohibits the physician from performing or inducing an abortion and the measure provides for civil action against the physician if the abortion is performed anyway. If the physician fails to conduct test to detect fetal heartbeat before performing an abortion, this also “authorizes private civil cause of action.”
The bill also asserts that “the State of Florida has a compelling interest from the outset of a woman’s pregnancy in protecting the health of the woman and the life of the unborn child.”
Florida House Speaker Chris Sprowls was contacted for comment on the bill’s progress.
“There’s some pretty serious arguments right now in the Supreme Court regarding state’s interest,” Pavone said, “and this is what Florida is doing here. They’re trying to express interest of the states, which was actually acknowledged by Roe v. Wade and reaffirmed in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
As Pavone explained, the point of “state’s interest” was made particularly in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The court agreed that—from the onset of pregnancy—the state has an interest both in the life of the mother and in the life inside of her.
“They’re trying to assert the interest of the state,” Pavone clarified. “So we can’t do rational and responsible law-making if we’re just going to throw out all of these arguments using pro-abortion soundbites. These Democrats are so shallow. It’s all they’re doing here. It would be good for them to read the briefs that have been submitted and are under consideration right now by the Supreme Court and get a little educated on what abortion bills are all about.”
“Prayerfully, America is waking up, realizing that human life is sacred from the womb to the tomb,” King said. “As civilized human beings we must find ways to serve humanity without killing humanity. When we recognize the beating heart of a baby at six weeks, that is a step forward. What do we do about the babies from conception up to six weeks? We have to think about that and care about them. What about the woman who has been raped or abused and finds herself pregnant and not ready to bear her child, to birth her child, and be a mother. There has to be healthy solution, life-affirming solutions, for the mother and the child.”
