Renzo Downey
Charlie Crist blames Gov. Ron DeSantis for the case of a middle school-aged incest survivor who was forced to leave Florida to obtain an abortion.
In a new digital ad released Thursday, DeSantis’ Democratic challenger is continuing to pummel the Republican Governor for signing a bill that bans abortions after 15 weeks with no exceptions for rape or incest. Crist has made abortion central to his General Election campaign, and the recent incident has given Democrats a real-life example of what to expect in Florida since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The minute-long ad begins with video and audio from news reports and interviews on the story, first reported by BuzzFeed News. It then shows a news clip of DeSantis signing the bill.
The ad then closes with an unspoken statement the Crist campaign says comes directly from the candidate.
“This is Florida under Ron DeSantis, children forced to give birth to children,” reads the ad. “Ron DeSantis shouldn’t make abortion decisions. Women and doctors should.”
Abortion emerged as a hot-button issue this summer after the Supreme Court delivered its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling in June. Democrats jumped in the polls and the ballot box while, in Kansas, voters rejected an anti-abortion measure. Women have also registered to vote in staggering margins over men, particularly in states where abortion is on the ballot in reality or in practice.
But as the abortion issue fades, being replaced with issues like the economy, immigration, and — in Florida — property insurance, Democrats like Crist hope to regain momentum with 19 days until Election Day. Crist will undoubtedly hammer DeSantis on abortion when the pair take the debate stage for the only time on Monday.
While DeSantis hasn’t announced his plans openly, Crist and Democrats say the Governor will usher in more abortion restrictions now that Roe v. Wade is overturned.
“Behind closed doors, Gov. DeSantis is plotting to take away any remaining freedom Florida women have to make their own decisions about abortion,” Crist said in a statement Thursday. “We know where that leads: tragic stories like that of the middle school-aged incest survivor forced to leave the state to seek care will become more and more common. It’s barbaric.”
Florida’s 15-week law is on its way to the Florida Supreme Court, made up of six conservative Justices and one moderate Justice. Unlike the U.S. Constitution, the Florida Constitution contains an explicit right to privacy. But the state Court could change the limits to abortion restrictions, and Crist says his veto pen would halt abortion bans from the Republican-controlled Legislature.
“This November, we’re fighting for our sisters, friends, and loved ones,” Crist said. “We’re fighting like our lives depend on it — because in this election, they do.”
Recent polls have shown DeSantis with a lead of 5 percentage points or more. He also outshines Crist, a recent Democratic Congressman and former Republican Governor, in the money race.
This is Florida under Ron DeSantis: Children forced to give birth to children. pic.twitter.com/sCx3es1mmQ
— Charlie Crist (@CharlieCrist) October 20, 2022
66 comments
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 11:03 am
Florida under DeSantis: A right wing police state protecting grifters, wage thieves, and the rich. Freedom for the rich… freedom t-shirts for everyone else.
MMSafety
October 21, 2022 at 8:36 am
Tom, you are simple minded and simply part of the problem.
Tom
October 21, 2022 at 9:22 am
That would be you..
RVP
October 21, 2022 at 11:29 am
If only what you stated was true…Florida would be even better.
Rdnole57
October 21, 2022 at 3:14 pm
Move
Karen Lonabaugh-Hartley
October 21, 2022 at 3:32 pm
Governor DeSantis is/has/continues to be Exactly what Florida Women need. He protects our rights! Christ is an taking One issue and exploiting it just like he has done with multiple issues in the past. Look into both men’s records on multiple issues. This Election IS NOT based on one issue! Do your research Woman of Florida! This is our opportunity to Stand Up, Show America That we Know the Issues and We Are NOT falling for Abortion process alone! I will not repeat the problems We know. I know Christ, I’ve watched him vote with Biden ALL the time. Women of Florida, Let’s Stand Firm.
marylou
October 21, 2022 at 6:44 pm
ABORTION IS AN ECONOMIC ISSUE. Most women know that.
Research this: The Turnaway Study examined the effects of unwanted pregnancy on women’s lives. The study found that being denied an abortion results in worse FINANCIAL, HEALTH, AND FAMILY OUTCOMES.
Abortion is a whole lot more than one issue!
!
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 11:23 am
Real Tom here. Once again corsin you ensure my legendary status.
Scum bag degenerate corsin!
You are a sad sack of manure. You are a Pussy!
To be clear, these false attacks, scurrilous charges by abortion extremists are despicable.
Crisp is pathetic.
The family, parents must come forward! They must have Doctor speak to confirm.
These false charges unto confirmed.
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 11:29 am
👆 Fake Tom is at in again. Everyone can tell who is the legend and who is the legendary dumbass.
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 11:34 am
You are a pathetic scum bag.
Your whole purpose is to attack Trump, Obummer tells you to shut up.
You engage in distractions, and diversions. You offer no substance, just incoherence.
You literally threaten violence, murder and physical harm. You threatened killing Hope yesterday, as you threatened to kill me.
FP has been notified!
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 11:48 am
You are the biggest incoherent on the website there Fake Tom. I email Florida Politics and tell them you stole my screen name and aim to humiliate me by posting stupidity. Someone threatened to beat your ass it’s not my problem. Try not being a belligerent asshole. That’ll surely get you a big smack.
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 12:00 pm
You are full of crap Joey degenerate corsin! You are a pathetic crap head.
You can’t win on ideas nor substance so your purpose is to demean.
You are the dumb ass, everyone knows your 3rd grade manner.
You threatened under your name, your email.
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 12:15 pm
You dumb son of a Bitch corsin, I own you. You can’t exist without my commentary. You are a jealous mental idiot.
Your attacks mean nothing, accomplish nothing. You lie with impeach now.
You are a Pussy, you find joy in this crisp outline cause you engage in incest. Mental retard!
The Real Tom
October 20, 2022 at 12:35 pm
You don’t know your balls from your asshole buddy. Just embarrassing yourself with childish rant at this point.
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 12:50 pm
You are my ass hole pal, I crap on you and Soros Manchurian nation, Joey corsin.
I crap on you two times a day! You like it, u ask for more.
It sucks being you! I ensure it.
The Real Tom
October 20, 2022 at 12:55 pm
Try making some sense at least once a day. All I can tell you…
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 1:02 pm
I own you!
U have no chance, no how Joey alias fake corsin. Just a joke.
The Real Tom
October 20, 2022 at 1:23 pm
What the hell is “no how Joey?” You own something alright… intellectual disabilities and mental health illness.
MMSafety
October 21, 2022 at 8:37 am
Just not to bright are you Tom…
Impeach Biden
October 20, 2022 at 11:45 am
DeSantis wants to legalize incest, and that is why i support him.
It’s about FREEDOM. I should have the FREEDOM to get my sister pregnant.
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 11:52 am
And the freedom to build back styrofoam houses on top of the rubble and the bodies that the hurricane caused…just so it can happen all over again. Don’t worry. California and New York will bail the idiots out over and over. Some of that money will go to buying “first responders” votes for the GOP. Thank you California!!
Impeach Biden
October 20, 2022 at 11:59 am
YES! I agree.
DeSantis will legalize incest, human/animal intimacy, and get ride of all building codes. This is all BIG GOVERNMENT nonsense.
He will also repeal age of consent laws in Florida too, all in the name of Freedom! DeSantis really is a great man than Jesus Christ.
Loretta
October 20, 2022 at 12:08 pm
By 15 weeks, a decision should be made even in a case of incest. The perpetrator should be tried and castrated.
marylou
October 21, 2022 at 1:29 pm
In this case the pregnancy probably wasn’t discovered by an adult until the girl started to look pregnant at 16-20 weeks.
Castration, while deserved, doesn’t mean it’s okay to force a child to become a mother. Castration is not an alternative to abortion. Desantis is forcing school girls to become mothers. Anyone who votes for Desantis is guilty too.
Love Pookie
October 23, 2022 at 8:14 am
I believe the people here are talking about children who are victims of a crime – not adult women. As you rightly commented, the child probably was not even aware as a 10 year-old what was happening to her. To expect a child to take care of a baby who is likely to suffer tremendous genetic problems b/c of incest is just not humane. Other developed countries like France, England and Denmark see this and just are shocked, that a leading force for human rights would do this to one of its own children. You are right, it is an economic issue, maybe I can afford to fly my teen over to Paris for the RU486 pill if she were to become pregnant. Access to health care unfortunately IS an economic problem, those with money can always ignore abortion legislation b/c they can just leave and find more reasonable laws elsewhere. Poor people just don’t have those options.
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 12:41 pm
Crisp and the abortion extremists are despicable.
The family must come forward. DeSantis should have AG investigate, charges to be filed.
Joe corsin engages in incest, arrest him.
Crisp is a despicable being. Dems support abortion til birth.
The Real Tom
October 20, 2022 at 12:57 pm
Fake Tom: Incest victim, rape victim, far right propaganda victim, walking advertisement for abortion and product of irresponsible sex.
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 1:04 pm
Joey corsin, cocksucker, street Walker with mommy! You incest degenerate.
Go bang mommy!
The Real Tom
October 20, 2022 at 1:25 pm
Fake Tom is the product of irresponsible sex with a street walker. He’s admitted it!
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 1:04 pm
Joey corsin, cocksucker, street Walker with mommy! You incest degenerate.
Go bang mommy!
The Real Tom
October 20, 2022 at 1:27 pm
👆The fake Tom has serious sexually related mental health illnesses. This is obvious by what he goes on about. Seek help before you rape someone for Christ sakes.
marylou
October 21, 2022 at 1:51 pm
Stop repeating anti-abortionist lies. There are only four doctors in the country who do later pregnancy abortions. These abortions are only done in cases where death is imminent or where the fetus is not viable or has conditions like no brain or no arms and legs.
These pregnancies are almost always wanted. It’s really depraved for anti-abortionists to use these painful tragedies to try to smear all abortions. “Pro-lifers” are just cruel toward families.
DeSantis > Jesus Christ
October 20, 2022 at 1:03 pm
Fuck Jesus. DeSantis is our new lord & savior.
I think we should all start a church & pray to him instead.
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 1:07 pm
Roast in hell Joey incest!
You are a scurrilous pig!
You swear at Christ. Despicable
Joe Corsin
October 20, 2022 at 1:28 pm
That one was not me. Rarely are you ever right about anything. Only you babble disturbing gibberish….
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 1:35 pm
Crapping on you all day, you are my as hole. Yes, I’ll do another.
Joe Corsin
October 20, 2022 at 1:45 pm
You better seek help before you rape someone. That’s all I have to say. You gonna get locked up…
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 1:38 pm
I’m correct bout all.
The legend!
You loser.
Joe Corsin
October 20, 2022 at 1:46 pm
Legendary dumbass?
Impeach Biden
October 20, 2022 at 1:39 pm
Jesus hasn’t done anything for Florida. DeSantis has.
Jesus probably even sent the hurricane.
DeSantis > Jesus
We should start a Church of DeSantis
Greggory
October 20, 2022 at 2:09 pm
May God have mercy on you… its never to late to ask for forgiveness.
Impeach Biden
October 20, 2022 at 3:31 pm
Nah, i’ll pray to DeSantis & Trump. They are the true American Gods now. Jesus had his time, but he’s over. And he was brown.
Zeke
October 20, 2022 at 1:53 pm
Desatis is fascist scum who deserves to be locked up in prison for the rest of his pathetic life.
Impeach Biden
October 20, 2022 at 3:32 pm
LOL. DeSantis is stronger and better than Jesus. Good luck locking him up!
Greggory
October 20, 2022 at 2:04 pm
Wow these commenters blow goats…
Impeach Biden
October 20, 2022 at 3:52 pm
Stop being so offended, Snowflake.
DeSantis is our savior and he deserves our worship & praise.
He sits at the right hand of the Father, Donald Trump.
Trump, DeSantis, and Abbot are the new Holy Trinity. 🙏
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 4:05 pm
Yes Greggory, Joe corsin does blow.
Yes he’s a blower!
The Real Tom
October 20, 2022 at 6:22 pm
Seek help for incest victimhood 😆
Tom
October 20, 2022 at 6:41 pm
Joey corsin, fake Tom.
You tipped Charlie off, they used you and your family. His campaign manager was fired. Good going
Incest with mommy, u cocksucker.
You can’t stand to legend Tom.
LMAO, I’ve crapped and destroyed you all day! All of FP knows. You have been exposed as the fraud and street walker you are.
It sucks being you, but I suffer you happily and soros nation.
The Real Tom
October 21, 2022 at 9:24 am
You’ve crapped me? What the hell does that mean?
Yrral
October 20, 2022 at 7:27 pm
This not only a stain on Florida,but all American Google Rubio Seed of A Rapist
margarita senorita
October 20, 2022 at 8:06 pm
So what will Florida funnyman Charlie Crisp do after he loses the election? Write comedy perhaps? He has a wonderful imagination. Chumley, the national comedy circuit awaits you, dear.
Jerry
October 21, 2022 at 6:57 am
Meanwhile, Charlie Crist wants to force an experimental vaccine into our children for a virus that poses very little threat to children.
So I guess in Charlie Crist’s world, only pregnant women who want to destroy their baby get medical privacy and get to decide their own medical decisions.
marylou
October 21, 2022 at 2:01 pm
Are you actually saying that because our children are forced to have a vaccine, they should also be forced to become a mother? What else do you want done to them? SICK
MMSafety
October 21, 2022 at 8:41 am
Florida Politics. Just another liberal propaganda outlet. If you vote democrat then you are part of the problem, your limited mental capacity has allowed you to believe the manure that liberals are pedaling and it’s people like you who have historically allowed most of the atrocities that have occurred.
Charlie Crist
October 21, 2022 at 9:27 am
👆 Pretty much backwards. It’s the crazed religious conservatives who have caused the most mayhem…and continue to cause the most mayhem. They talk about freedom but move to take people’s freedoms away and otherwise sabotage and obstruct government. Also racist and hateful people…all in the name of God. You people going to hell!!!
marylou
October 21, 2022 at 2:23 pm
Here’s people like you:
“A GOP candidate running for an Arizona college district’s governing board was arrested Oct 4th on a charge of public sexual indecency after an officer allegedly caught him masturbating in his truck near a preschool.” Officer found him with his pants pulled down to his thighs.
In a Facebook post from May, Kaufman said he wanted “our children protected [from] the progressive left.”
Following the incident Kaufman said he “will never stop fighting to protect the United States Constitution and the values that make America the greatest country in the world.”
——Lawyers, Guns & Money
marylou
October 21, 2022 at 8:55 pm
Here’s people like you:
“A GOP candidate running for an Arizona college district’s governing board was arrested Oct 4th on a charge of public sexual indecency after an officer allegedly caught him masturbating in his truck near a preschool.” Officer found him with his pants pulled down to his thighs.
In a Facebook post from May, Kaufman said he wanted “our children protected [from] the progressive left.”
Following the incident Kaufman said he “will never stop fighting to protect the United States Constitution and the values that make America the greatest country in the world.”
——Lawyers, Guns & Money
Benri
October 21, 2022 at 9:35 am
Pro-Democrats will mix and match news pieces like a puzzle that fits their agenda.
Before you, Democrats, throw rocks into the air to see where they land, be careful they don’t land on your cheap plastic roof.
Remember, we all have seen Mr. Biden caressing girls in uncomfortable ways.
Christ is a “call man” who offers his services, not for conviction, nor for the betterment of us Floridians, but for his own gain.
Some might call it political prostitution.
Some might call it political immorality.
Elliott Offen
October 21, 2022 at 10:45 am
We’ve heard Trump say, “Grab em by the pu**y” and tales of rapes and other sexual assaults over decades. It’s pathetic how you evil people try to scapegoat others while your own misrable empty suit party is a disgrace to humanity.
David In Shoreline
October 21, 2022 at 10:28 am
Sorry Charlie, your tactics fail again. Most Floridians do not support late term abortions. They don’t agree that a healthy child should be aborted at 8 or 9 months which unfortunately happens far too often in this country. Governor DeSantis is now guaranteed to be re-elected because Floridians understand Charlie Crist is pro-abortion up until the moment of birth.
Charlie Crist
October 21, 2022 at 10:46 am
👆 Walking advertisement for abortion and product of irresponsible sex.
marylou
October 21, 2022 at 2:31 pm
“…healthy child aborted…at 8 or 9 months”: This is not happening. Where did you hear this? Please provide citations
Richard Weissman
October 21, 2022 at 10:50 am
Soince De Santis believesw that vaccination should be a matter nof choice bvy parents, he undoubtedly thinks that women should have the ability to control their own bodies. Let’s welcome him to the pro-abortion network.
Joe Gilberti PE
October 22, 2022 at 10:43 am
See Gilberti vs Biden et al – includes Crist-DeSantis-Trump and more caught in a Florida Eugenics operation w Catholic Church, Pentagon and Media for over 10yrs out of Fort Myers!
marylou
October 22, 2022 at 3:24 pm
Google: myanetwork.org/the-issue-of-tissue/
The ad they should be running
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