There will be a six-week abortion ban in place when voters head to the polls in Florida in the fall to vote for not just the president and a U.S. senator, but also on whether abortion should be enshrined in the state constitution. That collocation has Republicans nervous and Democrats skeptically optimistic that Florida could be back on the map for the party.
"So if I was writing a bill, I’d think that 15 weeks with the limitations is where the state’s at,” he told The Hill. “I think it’s important we do what there’s consensus (for).”
FO:
Come November. That you were way, way off from ‘where the state’s at’.
I really wish this Republican implosion was happening in October, there’s a long ways to go and plenty of time for people to forget about all this flailing around. That presumes Republicans figure out a way to talk about abortion, or the media lets it go and concentrates on Trump’s antics or whatever made up Biden conspiracy pops up in October.
The one good thing is the anti-abortion zealots are pushing on Republicans not to back down on supporting extreme bans…they will make enough noise to force some Republicans to stick to the extreme position even if it’s a vote loser. If the Republicans can continue to be painted as the party in favor of killing women and making raped kids have babies then they do much worse in November, and the fact that the people most in favor of creating Gilead are applying the most pressure feels like justice in some way.
Your "deeply-held, religious" belief. You know… The one upon which you base the legislation condoning (encouraging) discrimination against the pagans and heretics. FFS
Scott switched gears, saying he would sign the six-week ban if he were still governor.
And the interviewer fails to ask the simple, clarifying question: “Well, 6 weeks is the current law in Florida, are you saying that if you were governor now, and a 15 week bill came to you you would sign that???”
But then, that was not the point of this exchange…the point was to get back on the 6 week bandwagon until he needs to cheer on 15 weeks again. Sheesh
Oh my! For some reason anti-abortionists aren’t happy with a 15-week limit. Maybe it’s because 95% of current procedures occur by the fifteenth week. That limit would only restrict 5% or less since most of these will be to save the life of the mother.