Student activists disrupt Florida 15-week abortion ban hearing

[brooklynite]

Tampa Bay Times

TALLAHASSEE — Activists with Students for a Democratic Society staged a protest in the middle of a Florida House committee meeting Thursday as lawmakers were taking up a controversial bill banning abortions after 15 weeks.

After less than half an hour of public testimony, Bryan Avila, R-Miami Springs, chairperson of the Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, said he would have to cut public feedback short in the interest of keeping the meeting to its scheduled two hours.

Students from around Florida, many of whom had already testified against the bill, were outraged. They began chanting, “Let her speak!” drowning Avila out. With the committee unable to continue its business, the meeting was briefly paused while law enforcement escorted the students from the room.

The students left without incident, chanting “All power to the people!” and “The people united will never be defeated!”

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Good, old SDS.