@GOP is the Party of REGULATION OF WOMEN'S BODIES--**NOT deREGULATION..........DAMN.............

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South Florida Sun Sentinel
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Although Florida law already requires a parent or guardian to be notified before a minor has an abortion, the Legislature is fast-tracking bills that call for written, notarized consent as well. These bills threaten the rights of all women. | Editorial: https://trib.al/tMpJFMl

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Although Florida law already requires a parent or guardian to be notified before a minor has an abortion, the Legislature is fast-tracking bills that call for written, notarized consent as well. Legislators ultimately want to leave Florida women with no protection if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Although Florida law already requires a parent or guardian to be notified before a minor has an abortion, the Legislature is fast-tracking bills that call for written, notarized consent as well. Legislators ultimately want to leave Florida women with no protection if Roe v. Wade is overturned. (J.Miarka/Dreamstime/TNS)

Although Florida law already requires a parent or guardian to be notified before a minor has an abortion, the Legislature is fast-tracking bills that call for written, notarized consent as well.

Why?
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Superficially, the intended targets are only teenage girls, and the legislation comes with the usual platitudes about the importance of parental involvement at difficult moments in their lives.

That’s bad enough.

But make no mistake: these bills also jeopardize abortion rights for all Florida women.

The transparent purpose is to undo a 1989 Florida Supreme Court decision that held that the state Constitution’s privacy clause guarantees freedom of reproductive choice. The decision in the case In Re TW, invalidated a parental consent law.

The Florida Constitution says this: “Every natural person has the right to be let alone and free from governmental intrusion into the person’s private life.”

“We can conceive of few more personal or private decisions concerning one’s body that one can make in the course of a lifetime, except perhaps the decision of the terminally ill in their choice of whether to discontinue necessary medical treatment,” then-Chief Justice Leander Shaw wrote for the majority.
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[Haggis for Breakfast]

1. These pro-lifers will not be happy until they can start executing any woman

who makes the decision to terminate.