Ron DeSantis’ Administration Is Threatening to Prosecute the Media for Airing Pro-Choice Ads<\/p>\n
The problem is especially acute for cancer patients, like Caroline, who must undergo an abortion in order to receive chemotherapy. Florida\u2019s exception does not clarify when a patient\u2019s cancer is severe enough to justify termination. These women may have to wait until their tumor grows before a doctor will certify that it will cause \u201csubstantial and irreversible physical impairment.\u201d In fact, Physicians for Human Rights interviewed a Florida doctor whose patient needed an abortion so she could undergo chemotherapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer. The doctor worked with lawyers to compile the immense amount of paperwork necessary to prove that her patient qualified for an exception. It took so long that she ultimately urged the patient to drive four hours to terminate elsewhere. This denial of medical care is precisely what \u201cCaroline\u201d warns against.<\/p>\n
Read more at Slate<\/a><\/p>\n DeSantis Seeks To Silence Brain Cancer Patient Speaking Out About Her Abortion<\/p>\n Lawyers representing Amendment 4 are accusing the Department of Health of an \u201cunconstitutional attempt to coerce the station into censoring protected speech,\u201d and demanding the stations keep the ad up on the air. \u201cThis is not just an unfounded request, it is an unconstitutional state action,\u201d lawyers with the Elias Law Group wrote. \u201cThe letter is a textbook example of government coercion that violates the First Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n DeSantis Threatening Jail Time for Running Abortion Rights Ads in Florida<\/p>\n Now we learn that the state is quite literally threatening jail time for the employees of stations<\/a> that agree to run one of the ads for the pro-choice amendment. You heard that right \u2014 not sue under some claim of defamation but actual criminal charges.<\/p>\n Read more at Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ron DeSantis’ Administration Is Threatening to Prosecute the Media for Airing Pro-Choice Ads The problem is especially acute for cancer patients, like Caroline, who must undergo an abortion in order to receive chemotherapy. Florida\u2019s exception does not clarify when a patient\u2019s cancer is severe enough to justify termination. These women may have to wait until … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[203,164,126,74,27,137,450,471],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2024-election","tag-6-week-bans","tag-anti-ballot-initiative-measures","tag-first-amendment","tag-florida","tag-gop","tag-maternal-mortality","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2932,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/2932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}