{"id":1269811,"date":"2022-02-04T00:37:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T05:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1269811"},"modified":"2022-02-04T00:37:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T05:37:47","slug":"florida-senate-republicans-advance-bill-to-prohibit-abortion-of-babies-after-15-weeks-gestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-senate-republicans-advance-bill-to-prohibit-abortion-of-babies-after-15-weeks-gestation\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Senate Republicans Advance Bill to Prohibit Abortion of Babies After 15 Weeks Gestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-senate-republicans-advance-bill-to-prohibit-abortion-of-babies-after-15-weeks-gestation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1269811&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Like Mississippi and other states across the country, Florida lawmakers are advancing legislation that would protect the unborn from being aborted after 15 weeks gestation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbortion is always of interest to pro-life Catholics,\u201d Cindy Pidala of Tampa said in a Tallahassee Democrat report on a hearing on the bill.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>SB 146 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2022\/146\">sponsored<\/a> by Florida Republican Sen. Kelli Stargel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are babies,\u201d Stargel said. \u201cThese are a separate and apart human being within that woman \u2026 and the court has long recognized important, legitimate interest (in) protecting the potentiality of human life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Florida development is taking place as the United States Supreme Court considers overturning the 1973 <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> decision that made abortion on demand the law of the land.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19747458\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Florida-Sen-Kelli-Stargel-Jan11-2022-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19747458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Florida-Sen-Kelli-Stargel-Jan11-2022-ap.jpg\" alt=\"Florida Sen. Kelli Stargel talks with guests during a legislative session, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo\/Phelan M. Ebenhack)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida Sen. Kelli Stargel talks with guests during a legislative session, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, in Tallahassee, FL. (AP Photo\/Phelan M. Ebenhack)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yahoo News<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/bill-ban-abortions-florida-15-193827722.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall\"> reported<\/a> on the bill that was voted out of the Senate Health Policy Committee:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The political climate in Tallahassee is favorable for the bill to land quickly on the desk of Gov. Ron DeSantis, who said a 15-week ban \u201cmakes sense.\u201d House Speaker Chris Sprowls said the bill would provide new resources to reduce infant mortality, and Senate President Wilton Simpson has also spoke favorably about it.<\/p>\n<p>The committee rejected, however, an amendment from Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book of Plantation \u2013 a child sexual battery survivor \u2013 that would have included exceptions for rape and incest.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Policy Committee eventually cleared Stargel\u2019s bill on a 6-4 party line vote. It has one more committee before it goes before the full Senate. The House version, sponsored by GOP state Rep. Erin Grall of Vero Beach, has cleared two committees by a combined vote of 22-11, and is one committee from a House floor vote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>John Stemberger of the Orlando-based Florida Family Policy Council, an advocacy group focused on \u201cmarriage, family, and liberty,\u201d spoke at the committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem this bill solves is that Florida has become a late-term abortion destination state \u2026 we\u2019re not just known for our theme parks,\u201d Stemberger said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA legislative staff analysis said that in 2020, \u2018there were 209,645 live births in Florida. In the same year, there were 72,073 abortion procedures performed in the state,\u2019\u201d Yahoo reported.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Politics also<a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/492645-senate-republicans-push-abortion-bill-through-first-committee-stop\/\"> reported<\/a> on the development:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Florida law currently prohibits abortions during the third trimester \u2014 up to 24 weeks \u2014 with certain medical exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Many Republican-led states, though, are challenging abortion rights nationwide. In October, Texas enacted one of the strictest abortion laws in the nation, making the procedure illegal after six weeks. West Virginia, meanwhile, introduced legislation Tuesday to impose a 15-week abortion ban.<\/p>\n<p>The measure will appear next before the Senate Appropriations Committee. It further contains provisions that&nbsp;would loop pregnant women into a tobacco education program, among other provisions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis bill safeguards innocent, unborn children with beating hearts, who can move, taste, see, feel pain, and whose lives should be protected under the laws of this state,\u201d Stargel said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Penny Starr on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennyStarrDC\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Mississippi and other states across the country, Florida lawmakers are advancing legislation that would protect the unborn from being aborted after 15 weeks gestation. \u201cAbortion is always of interest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}