evanolsen:

Today was a historic day in Florida. Through lengthy and intense debates an amazing amount of pro-life bills passed the Florida House. The House passed all six pro-life bills ranging from having Floridians vote on the 2012 ballot to add an amendment to the FL Constitution banning publicly funded abortions — to requiring women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound, have it reviewed and explained to them.

Pro-life Democrats made their voices heard today in the debate of these bills and were strong voices for righteousness. Representative Julien (Dem. D 104) said in reference to the genocide of Africans in the days of slavery and in support of bill HB 97, ”abortion is a genocide of the unborn.” ”Nothing is more essential to what we do than the preservation of human life,” said another Representative in reference to the notion that job-creating bills are a better way to spend the session. 

Here’s a look at the bills passed today:

HB 501 Relating to Choose Life License Plates - This bill allows for Choose Life, Inc. to distribute funds donated by Floridians choosing the Choose Life license plate to organizations that help pregnant women and adoption agencies — rather than the funds being distributed by individual counties.

CS/HJR 1179  Amendment Banning Public Funding of Abortions on the 2012 Ballot - This bill proposes an amendment to the State Constitution that would prohibit public funding of abortions (excluding rape, incest and life of the mother); It would also prohibit the State Constitution from being interpreted to create broader rights to abortion than those contained in U.S. Constitution.

CS/HB 97 Health Insurance - Prohibits certain health insurance policies & health maintenance contracts from providing coverage for abortions; provides that certain restrictions on coverage for abortions apply to certain group health insurance policies issued or delivered outside state which provide coverage to residents of state.

HB 1127 Required Ultrasounds - This bill requires that an ultrasound be performed before a woman can obtain an abortion. It also requires that the ultrasound be reviewed with the patient before she consents for abortion procedure. If she chooses to not review the ultrasound she must do so in writing and that she did so of her own free will and without undue influence; it provides exemption from requirement to view ultrasound for women who are victims of rape, incest, domestic violence, or human trafficking or for women who have serious medical condition necessitating abortion.

HB 1247 Parental Notice of Abortion - This bill would tighten requirements for parental notification when a minor seeks an abortion;  It would require minors seeking an abortion to have parental consent before the abortion may be performed. 

HB 1397 Third Trimester Abortions: This would expand prohibition on third-trimester abortions to include a ban if the fetus is viable. It would also require physician who offers to or performs abortions to complete continuing ethics education.

These bills aren’t just good ideas, they’re the beginning of abortion ending in the state of Florida and are evidences that Floridians do care about the unborn, women and families. Today is no minor day.

No minor day indeed, when emotional terrorism becomes law. Mental health is normally unaffected by abortion, and in fact PAS does not exist, but no one has studied what the forced ultrasounds do for those people’s mental health! If anything about this would negatively affect these people’s mental health, the forced ultrasounds would do it.

Furthermore, parental notification for minors isn’t always a good thing. I’ve been bringing this up a lot lately as a hypothetical experience, but I’ve been wondering lately how laws like these would have affected me had I become pregnant as a young teenager. I have a relatively minor mental disability, Asperger’s. Look it up if you don’t know what it is because I’m sick of explaining it to everyone. Let’s take me at fourteen. At fourteen, frankly, I was dumb and didn’t have any of my emotions sorted out, worse than a normal fourteen year old girl. If I had ever needed an abortion at that age, I would never have told my mother about it. My mother’s not pro-life, but she is anti-teenage-sex to the point where she promised me that if I ever became pregnant at that age, she would have kicked me out of the house. Even if I was just fourteen. So, if the clinic informed my parents of what was going on, you know what would have happened? I’ve no doubt the woman would have started beating me—exactly what a girl needs, especially after getting an abortion.

I am surely not the only teenage girl who had parents like these. Don’t you dare tell me this legislation is a good idea in practice.

By the way, who gives a fuck about pro-life license plates? Are there pro-choice options?