Posted on 04/06/2016 7:02:55 PM PDT by Morgana
Abortion activists have not given up their fight to stop a Florida 24-hour waiting period law from taking effect.
The 2015 law requires women to wait 24 hours between visits to an abortion facility before having an abortion. The waiting period gives women time to consider their options after their initial consultation at the abortion clinic and prevents them from being rushed into an irreversible decision.
In February, the 1st District Court of Appeals ordered that the law take effect, overturning a block put in place by a circuit court judge, LifeNews reported. Abortion activists appealed the decision.
This week, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi urged the state Supreme Court to uphold the law and reject the abortion activists’ appeal, according to CBS Miami.
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The report continues:
Plaintiffs in the case then went to the Supreme Court, contending in part that the law “prevents a woman seeking an abortion from having the procedure for at least 24 hours after meeting with her physician, and requires her to make an additional, medically unnecessary trip to her doctor. As a result of the DCA (District Court of Appeal) order, these unprecedented restrictions on the fundamental right to privacy are currently in effect.”
But in a brief filed Monday, Bondi’s office argued the Supreme Court should not take up the case. The brief said the appeals court ruled that a circuit judge did not show adequate “factual findings” to impose the injunction.
“Petitioners (the plaintiffs) claim that a duly enacted law is facially unconstitutional,” the state’s brief said. “But in order to obtain the extraordinary relief of enjoining a law as facially invalid, petitioners must satisfy their heavy burden to put forth in the trial court competent, substantial evidence establishing the elements necessary to sustain an injunction. … They have not done so.”
The law received wide support in the legislature when it passed in 2015. However, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Florida, and Richard Johnson of Tallahassee quickly challenged the measure in June 2015 on behalf of Bread and Roses Women’s Health Center, an abortion business in Florida, LifeNews reported.
The law makes Florida the 27th state to require that women pause to reflect at least 24 hours before getting an abortion.
When they adopted the legislation, members of the Florida legislature pointed out how similar laws in other states have stopped abortions.
“This is not a procedure — it is a life,” said State Rep. Jimmie Smith. Referring to the bill’s author, freshman Rep. Jennifer Sullivan, Smith added, “Representative Sullivan, the greatest consequence of your bill is a beautiful baby.”
“I am here today as an advocate for those women who are being pressured,” Rep. Sullivan said, according to Margie Menzel of the News Service of Florida.
Elected at age 23, Sullivan said she has witnessed women being pressured by their loved ones — especially a spouse or a boyfriend — to make a hasty decision about having an abortion.
“I care about the women who have sat in my office,” she said. “I care about the women who have cried in committee.”
A 2014 Rasmussen poll found that Americans favor mandatory waiting periods for women before they have abortions.
24 hours could save a life. gone before courts yet?
The abortion industry business model depends on knocking women off-balance emotionally (stressing how bad and inconvenient pregnancy is, then delivering a positive pregnancy test) and then getting her to sign her baby’s life away before she has a chance to digest the information. Not only waiting periods, but mandatory informed consent laws are needed.
For all that the abortion industry tries to portray abortion as a legitimate medical procedure, their behavior says otherwise.
Ever notice that people who have to have surgery on a non-emergency basis sometimes wait weeks or longer before the surgery? That’s in large part because the surgeon needs to run tests and plan the surgery in order to achieve the best patient outcome. Abortionists don’t care about patient health—half of their “patients” are dead when they leave.
Make them wait 3 days.
We have to wait 3 days to take a pistol home.
Why not have a 3 day waiting period to kill a baby?
Patriots, as evidenced by the fact that the word “privacy” does not appear in the Constitution, note that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect the so-called right to privacy. In fact, state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices established the mythical constitutional right to privacy and then used that mythical right to concoct the mythical constitutional right to have an abortion.
And speaking of Florida, the 24 hour waiting period law for abortions and the Terri Schiavo euthanasia case are examples of constitutionally unchecked 10th Amendment (10A)-protected state powers imo.
The problem for state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices is that, although the on-duty justice for handling emergencies recognized 10A-protected state powers in Terri’s case, activist justices must now go into double-standard mode and ignore 10A for the abortion law in order to preserve the credibility of the Court’s phony “constitutional” right to have an abortion.
Well that’s the short bullet points, and I agree.
While I don’t agree with the three day waiting period to buy a gun, it has been allowed to be broadly enforced, based on the theory that a sudden decision to buy a lethal weapon, done on a whim, possibly at the height of emotional rage or temporary mental duress, needs to be controlled with a simmer down/sober up societal double check.
Supposedly to save lives....
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