Florida Senate launches assault on women's rights Tampabay.com
Incoming Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos and his Republican colleagues have launched an all-out assault on women's rights in the waning hours of the legislative session. On Thursday, just one day after unveiling two highly restrictive antiabortion amendments, the measures were passed by the full Senate, 23-16, largely along party lines as part of a health care bill (HB 1143). Both measures would enable the government to intrude into women's private medical decisions in ways that should be anathema to a political party that claims to be for small government. The hypocrisy, and the way the amendments were introduced without a single committee hearing, is almost as distasteful as the measures themselves.
Haridopolos' amendment would prohibit the use of state or federal money for abortions in almost all cases. Current law already bars the government from directly funding abortion services, except in cases where the mother's life is in danger or the woman was a victim of rape or incest. Haridopolos' measure would go further. Employers receiving a government tax credit to provide employees with health insurance, as will happen under federal health care reform, could not choose a policy that covered elective abortion services.
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