Gabrielle Russon
CNN commentator Ana Navarro is joining a group of female politicians to rally Saturday for abortion rights in Miami.
“Bodies, Our Lives: A Rally for Reproductive Freedom will feature women’s stories and the leaders who are fighting to protect women’s freedoms,” organizers said. To RSVP for the free rally, go here.
The event is scheduled to run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Bayfront Park, 301 N. Biscayne Blvd. Attendees are encouraged to wear white and make signs, according to the press release.
Besides Navarro, the list of expected attendees includes U.S. Senate candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, state Rep. Dotie Joseph, Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, and several local officials.
Amendment 4 is on the Nov. 5 General Election ballot and would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. Since May, Florida has operated with an abortion ban kicking in at six weeks, which abortion rights advocates argue is before when many women even know they are pregnant.
“This amendment is a beacon of hope for all Floridians, especially those who are already suffering under a six-week abortion ban,” said former Miami-Dade County Commissioner Katy Sorenson, who is chairing the event, according to a statement. “Floridians overwhelmingly support Amendment 4. We want to send the unmistakable message that South Floridians from all neighborhoods and backgrounds are banding together to overturn the state’s near total abortion ban.”
It’s been a busy week as the debate over reproductive freedom intensifies two months before the election.
The group backing a constitutional amendment filed a lawsuit to shut down a state health agency website fighting against Amendment 4. Floridians Protecting Freedom, the political committee behind Amendment 4, also launched a multimillion-dollar ad campaign airing commercials to build support.
A pair of Florida congressional leaders asked for a federal investigation into Gov. Ron DeSantis misusing state resources to investigate petition fraud. DeSantis said some petitions were signed on behalf of dead voters or don’t match voter registration signatures. Democrats have called DeSantis’ claims a witch hunt.
DeSantis also went on the offensive, regularly attacking Amendment 4 as a vaguely written proposal that he believes will deregulate the health care industry. A group of doctors, with a state official by their side, spoke out against Amendment 4 during a press conference in Orlando.
8 comments
Ron Ogden
September 14, 2024 at 9:54 am
“CNN commentator Ana Navarro is joining a group of female politicians to rally Saturday for abortion rights in Miami.’
Why don’t all of you who claim the media is objective and unbiased just look at this item and at that farce of a debate and admit what every honest observer knows, that the media is the third arm of the Democrat-Bureaucrat-Mediacrat conspiracy against Republicans everywhere.
Word Salad
September 15, 2024 at 11:03 am
So true.
Frances Jenson
September 16, 2024 at 6:09 am
Dear Ron,
With all due respect, the women of America deserve and expect the right to necessary healthcare and that it’s privately addressed with our family members and providers. Until men have their healthcare legislated and their right to control what happens with their bodies, it’s extremely difficult to consider male opinions on the subject. Please understand that most men cannot accurately explain or define a woman’s reproductive anatomy and it’s function, therefore, it’s insulting to women that such an uninformed and uneducated on this topic have the decision making authority or input for that matter.
No woman ever wants to have an abortion. It defies our purpose of creating life. However, pregnancies are very complex and intricate events that are never easy or straight forward. A wide array of issues can occur in pregnancy, and occasionally life-threatening to the woman or the fetus. These are extremely heartbreaking, terrifying and overwhelming situations to no fault of the woman. Since Dobbs in June 2022, women across the U.S. have horrifically found themselves denied the necessary healthcare that treats them appropriately. Tens of thousands of women have suffered unnecessarily, painfully, and forced into declining health including near death illness caused by denied services. This is completely unacceptable, depraved, and cruel.
I completely respect every individual’s opinion and their right to believe abortion is murder, a sin, used only in exceptional situations, or safe and legal access. However, any individual opposition should never interfere with the personal healthcare necessary for any woman in America. No woman should die due to an eptopic pregnancy (fertilized egg attaches in fallopian tube and not to uterine wall). If not removed early on, it will burst causing internal bleeding and death.
Please also know that these are very much wanted pregnancies, and women are shattered to learn their pregnancy is nonviable and must be terminated. It’s unconscionable to think at a most devastating and heartbreaking time that additional pain and suffering is thrust upon women including close to death from denied compassionate care.
Again, I respect you have a personal opinion about abortion, and you have every right to think and feel the way you do. However, it has nothing to do with what healthcare American women need or want. I ask that you discuss this with the women in your life. This is an extremely personal and serious matter that should never be legislated. Women are dying!
Thank you for your time. I wish you greatly health and peace always.
Sincerely, Frances
Ron
September 16, 2024 at 2:11 pm
Frances, thank you for the polite tone of your comments. We need more of it. To say that the points you make are wrong flirts with being impolite, and I don’t want to be that way, but your comments are, I have to say, not only wrong but deeply disturbing.
To take your argument about “healthcare.” Except in very rare circumstances, abortion cannot logically be characterized as healthcare. There is nothing intrinsically unhealthy about being pregnant. It is wholly natural. Rarely does abortion improve a woman’s health, and that is because most women aborting their children are perfectly health. Yes, there are some very rare circumstances in which an accident of pregnancy threatens a woman’s life, and in those remarkably few cases, women’s health should be protected. No one asks a woman to sacrifice, or even endanger, her life for the sake of her child. But there are more than a million abortions a year in America. One of every four pregnancies results in abortion. There are not a million ectopic pregnancies in America every year. Abortion is abortion and calling it healthcare is merely rhetoric.
But your really disturbing comments begin with the second sentence: “Until men. . .” Healthcare for men and women is equally regulated. Abortion, as we have seen, is not healthcare. What would you think if I told you that you can have no valid opinion about men’s genito-urinary health? What snobbery to claim that men have no understanding of women’s reproductive systems. That is a level of bias that shows a complete lack of understanding.
Abortion is not a private matter. It is a matter for a whole civilization to debate–and that includes men (unless you wish to declare that men do not quite have a place in your imagined civilization.) America is being torn apart by the question of abortion. For sixty years it has shredded the civil fabric of our country. To claim that this is an issue for one gender is simply to say that only one gender is important in America. That is what lies at the core of your argument: that men have no place in human reproduction. That is astonishingly illogical and inadmissible.
Thank you for being polite, and please believe I have tried to be in response.
Frances Jenson
September 16, 2024 at 6:26 am
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/689346-dozens-of-pregnant-women-some-bleeding-or-in-labor-are-turned-away-from-ers-despite-federal-law/
Word Salad
September 15, 2024 at 11:41 am
She’s not a corespondent, she is an activist like the rest of those knuckleheads there.
Ron
September 16, 2024 at 10:42 am
Frances, thank you for the polite tone of your comments. We need more of it. To say that the points you make are wrong flirts with being impolite, and I don’t want to be that way, but the tone of your comments is, I have to say, deeply disturbing and wrong.
To take your argument about “healthcare.” Except in very rare circumstances, abortion cannot logically be characterized as healthcare. There is nothing intrinsically unhealthy about being pregnant. It is wholly natural. Yes, there are some very rare circumstances in which an accident of pregnancy threatens a woman’s life, and in those remarkably few cases, women should be able to get “healthcare”. But there are more than a million abortions a year in America. One of every four pregnancies results in abortion. There are not a million ectopic pregnancies in America every year. If a pregnant woman presents herself to a physician with the symptoms of the flu, she is going to get healthcare. There is no doubt of it. Abortion is abortion and calling it healthcare is merely rhetoric.
But the really disturbing thing about your comments begins with the second sentence: “Until men. . .” How brutally careless can you be to assume that men’s healthcare is not regulated? Of course it is. What would you think if I told you that you can have no valid opinion about men’s genito-urinary health? What utter snobbery to claim that men have no understanding of women’s reproductive systems. That is a level of bias that approaches bigotry. Don’t you understand that abortion is not a private matter? It is a matter for a whole civilization to debate–and that includes men (unless you wish to declare, as I suspect you might wish, that men do not quite have a place in your imagined civilization.) Our country is being torn apart by the question of abortion. For sixty years it has shredded the civil fabric of our country. To claim that this is just an issue for one gender is simply to say that only one gender is important in America. That is what lies it the core of your argument: that men have no place in human reproduction. Unless you think you are the second coming of the Virgin Mary, it is shoutingly illogical and inadmissible.
Thank you for being polite, and please believe I have tried to be in response.
cassandra was right
September 18, 2024 at 6:05 pm
Abortion is a completely PRIVATE matter. You have a right to discuss it if you wish. But you do not have a right to make any laws forcing a woman to do anything with her body. FORCED PREGNANCY IS IMMORAL.
Abortion bans are the only laws that force one human being to provide life support services to another. They should be written that way to show how outrageous they are: Ex, “Women must provide housing, meals, oxygen, medical care, transportation, and assorted life support services to a fertilized egg that gets into their uterus. Men on the other hand can shoot dead anybody that tries to break into their truck.”
See McFall v. Shimp if MORAL v. LEGAL is unclear to you.
Notice men made the abortion laws. Notice the laws restrict women and girls only. Restrict yourself!
EVERY unplanned / unwanted pregnancy is a result of some man’s irresponsible action. If you are not certain that she wants a pregnancy as much as you do — right now — you should not be injecting your sperm. That’s just reckless behavior! You know the consequences. Control yourself instead of trying to control women!
It’s about INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS!!!
Vote YES on 4!
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