Opinion:How DeSantis and his GOP allies reveal their antiabortion hypocrisy

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Opinion: How DeSantis and his GOP allies reveal their antiabortion hypocrisy

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando on Feb. 28. (Joe Skipper/Reuters)

Opinion by Lizette Alvarez, Contributing columnist at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/28/ron-desantis-florida-gop-pro-life-hypocrisy/

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To the surprise of no one in Florida, a Texas-style antiabortion bill landed in the Florida state legislature last week. The bill, like the Texas version, is designed to ban most abortions by inviting citizen-filed lawsuits against anyone who helps a woman undergo the procedure.

Florida joins at least a half-dozen other Republican-led states now considering their own versions of the law, which bars abortions around six weeks of pregnancy — before many women are aware that they’re pregnant.

What is striking about the Florida GOP’s latest attack on abortion rights — “fetal heartbeat” bills have been tried before — is how little interest these Republicans take in trying to prevent the unplanned pregnancies that lead to abortions.

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So I was puzzled this summer when Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, chose not to reduce abortions by making contraception more readily available in the state. DeSantis vetoed a bipartisan bill in June that would have provided $2 million to help low-income women gain access to long-acting reversible contraception, such as IUDs and hormonal implants. Those forms of contraception are considered especially effective because they are less vulnerable to human error.

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1. So now De Santis is responsible for 1/2 the abortions that still happen.

And he always will be. Remember the number 1/2 of abortions could be avoided. Half the abortion that happen before 6 weeks. Half the later abortions that happen out of state.