Posted on 04/25/2016 10:43:44 AM PDT by Morgana
In a 5-2 ruling, the Florida Supreme Court on Friday issued a temporary block on enforcing the state’s 24-hour waiting period requirement for abortions.
Florida is one of 27 states that require women seeking abortions to wait at least a day between seeing a doctor about an abortion and having it performed. Studies have shown that such laws are effective in changing the minds of women who do not enter an abortion facility already certain of their decision.
A spokeswoman for Republican Governor Rick Scott, who signed the law, said they are reviewing the ruling, which was not on the law’s merits but was simply a temporary measure until the court decides whether they will hear a case challenging the law’s constitutionality.
The Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is suing to have the law tossed out on behalf of a Gainsville, FL abortion facility. The ACLU’s Nancy Abudu blasted the waiting period as an “unconstitutional” and “potentially dangerous” law causing “needless burdens to limit a woman’s access to reproductive care.”
However, despite upholding abortion, the US Supreme Court’s majority opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey already found 24-hour waiting periods to be constitutional in 1992. A waiting period does not qualify as an “undue burden,” the majority held, because it “rationally furthers the State’s legitimate interest in maternal health and in unborn life,” and “may delay, but does not prohibit, abortions.”
A lot of abortions are done same day at the clinic under presser by the clinic staff before the woman has had a chance to think about it. Believe it or not 24 hours is often the time she needs to not have one. This is why abortionist hate this law.
If abortion was performed using a gun, would these people advocate for no gun purchase waiting periods?
Who wants to even live in a country like this?
the American Civil Liberties Union is suing to have the law tossed out on behalf of a Gainsville, FL abortion facility.
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Gotta keep abortion super easy in party town Florida... UF Gators, the home of “drunk bitch fridays” where female co-eds can get sh*t-faced for free at dozens of local bars before going home with someone they just met... Ain’t freedom grand.
Gotta keep abortion super easy in party town Florida... UF Gators, the home of “drunk bitch fridays” where female co-eds can get sh*t-faced for free at dozens of local bars before going home with someone they just met... Ain’t freedom grand.
Has our forum sunk so low that civility and respect are lacking in posts. There are Florida Freepers, who are graduates of UF and are anti-abortion, who would take exception to your tone and use of words in reference to their alma mater.
A few impeachments would cool off judicial activism pretty quickly. Too bad the legislators in this nation have become arrant cowards.
FWIW, one of the two dissenters is Charles Canady, who was our congresscritter decades ago, before being appointed to the FL SCOTUS. I became acquainted with him in part because he married one of my students, and he has always impressed me as a principled conservative.
Strike the law down.
Make it a 7 month wait period.
Thank you. I too was appalled by that post. Besides which women do not become pregnant by themselves. I believe another person of the male persuasion has a part in it usually.
In CA we have a ten day “cooling off period” to purchase a Firearm, even if you don’t plan to Murder someone with it.
The Abortionist and the Mother to be on the other hand are planning to Murder someone.
Agree. A few judicial scalps would do wonders.
"The ACLU’s Nancy Abudu blasted the waiting period as an “unconstitutional [emphasis added]” ..."
If parents were making sure that their children were being taught about 10th Amendment-protected state powers, then instead of having to put up with pro-abortion activist justices who pretend that the mythical constitutional right to have an abortion is real, grade school children would probably be able to point that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect abortion as a right. The states are therefore free to make laws to prohibit constitutionally unprotected abortion.
Note that the 19th Amendment (19A), the amendment that effectively gave women the right to vote, is arguably the PC “right to have an abortion” amendment imo.
More specifically, as evidenced by the passage of the relatively recent unconstitutional omnibus spending bill, corrupt federal lawmakers have learned to exploit 19A by winning the votes of low-information women with the unconstitutional promise that the feds will pay for their abortions. This is despite the fact that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to appropriate taxes for funding abortions.
After all, since one of the very few powers that the states have delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, to regulate an aspect of domestic policy is to run the US Mail Service (1.8.7), one of the very few practical things that 19A actually got for women where the federal government is concerned is the power to voice their opinions on how the mail service is operated.
The only choices are to go somewhere else or to change the country. Sadly, the country has been changing already--rapidly--and in a totally wrong direction. I doubt it's possible to change it back; might have to wait until it self-destructs.
I’ve lived around Gainesville since 1976 , that is an accurate reflection of the coed lifestyle at that university.. don’t like it? Work at changing it. “DBF” is an institution there.
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