They Want More Baby-Killing in Florida

A headline in The Hill asks: As Florida bans legal abortion, where will 84,000 women go?

Think about that. The tragedy, according to the news outlet, is not that 84,000 babies – some 7,000 of them from other states – were dismembered in Florida last year. No, the thing that’s causing so much concern is, where will the next batch of mothers go to kill their children now that the Sunshine State can protect most pre-born babies from a brutal death?

Killing children is not the problem, according to so many on the left. Not being able to kill them is the issue.

The Florida Supreme Court on April 1 upheld a law that I stood by Gov. Ron DeSantis as he signed in 2022. The law protects babies from abortion at 15 weeks. This law was challenged by the usual abortion profiteers, including Planned Parenthood, who claimed incorrectly that the otherwise very valid “right to privacy” included the right to end a child’s life.

As the law awaited the court’s decision, neighboring states enacted laws protecting unborn babies, and so Florida became an abortion destination.

Things are looking up for the unborn here, though, because by upholding the 2022 law, the Court also allows the 2023 law signed by DeSantis to be enacted, and that one protects these precious children as soon as a heartbeat can be detected.

The Heartbeat Act will be enacted May 1.

Floridians elected the lawmakers who passed this bill, and the governor who signed it. The law reflects the will of the people.

But the Court issued a second ruling that day that gives abortion advocates, who are always looking for more children to kill, hope that the bloodbath might yet resume here.

A misleading amendment proposed for our state constitution has been greenlighted for the November ballot, and as we have seen in other states,  millions of dollars will be poured into efforts to convince Floridians that the amendments simply about women’s access to healthcare. Nothing more to see here, folks.

But what the amendments do instead is to impose a regime of practically unlimited abortion, removing even the most reasonable and popular regulations such as, depending on the specific measure, informed consent and parental
involvement laws.

The Democrats will stop at nothing until they can ensure taxpayer-funded abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.

They tend to run away from the legislative process because that involves hearings, evidence, witnesses, questions, lobbying, and the chance that people will actually come to understand something about abortion, its violence, and the extremism of the Democrat, pro-abortion position.

So they prefer to rely on the ballot amendment work-around. It is sound bite voting in one day, not just to enact a policy but to prevent contrary policies from being enacted in the future.

The abortion ballot initiative frenzy began after the June 2022 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade. The Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health decision returned the regulation of abortion back to the people and their elected representatives.

That decision pointed out with great historical detail that a right to abortion cannot be found in the federal constitution, nor in any of the 50 state constitutions – neither in their texts nor in their history.

That fact, of course, led the Florida Supreme Court to make clear the other day, in its ruling on the 15-week law, that “privacy” in the Florida Constitution does not include a “right to abortion.”

That decision puts in high relief what the other side is trying to do with this ballot initiative – that is, to impose something into the Constitution that was never there and that is contrary to what the people of Florida have already decided about abortion policy.

Now if in fact, it’s the will of the people to expand abortion, the legislature is open for business. Where’s the bill? If the people are really in favor of more abortion, the other side shouldn’t have any qualms about engaging in the lawmaking process.

By choosing the ballot route instead – and pouring millions of dollars into fooling voters about what the proposed amendment actually says – abortion advocates are clearly trying to repeat what they have done in other states, that is, to expand abortion without ever actually discussing what abortion is, what it does to the child in the womb, and to the entire family, and how extreme the abortion policy will be.

They know that when faced with the unvarnished, gory truth about abortion, and with a policy that admits of practically no limits, people will reject it.

Now it’s up to us to make sure every Florida voter recognizes that truth.

For more information on the Florida ballot initiative and the efforts to stop it, visit www.EndAbortionFlorida.US.

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