Today, a coalition of moderate Republicans and Democrats in the Florida Senate blocked an effort to take a controversial anti-abortion bill out of committee for a final vote in that chamber.
State Sen. Eleanor Sobel, D-Hollywood, yesterday introduced eight amendments to one bill — all of them written to make a point about the anti-abortion stance that has been pervasive in the GOP-led Florida Legislature during this year’s session.
A bill created to privatize 27 Florida prisons died on the state Senate floor today in a 19-21 vote.
Not surprisingly, most of Florida’s GOP-led Legislature received high marks this week from the American Conservative Union, one of the oldest and most influential conservative groups.
On the last day of Florida’s legislative session, Sen. Evelyn Lynn, R-Daytona Beach, received the ACLU of Florida’s “Defender of Freedom” award for the week. The award came on the heels of an impassioned speech she gave in opposition to a bill that requires doctors to perform an ultrasound on women seeking an abortion, with an option to view or listen to the description of the ultrasound. Lynn was among a handful of moderate Republicans who broke party lines during the session to voice their opposition to provisions aimed at limiting the right’s of women in the state.
In a debate over a bill that would require women seeking an abortion to view an ultrasound first, state Sen. Ronda Storms, R-Valrico, yesterday blasted abortion providers for ignoring fetuses’ “babyhood or humanhood.”
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