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On Monday, Florida’s House Criminal Justice Subcommittee voted 8-3 to advance legislation<\/a> that would make performing an abortion or operating an abortion facility\u00a0a felony. The bill stipulates that performing an abortion could be punishable by up to 30 years in prison.<\/p>\n

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Rep. Charles Van Zant, sponsor of the legislation, explained, “The bill recognizes that both the mother and the baby are citizens of the state of Florida… and we are therefore compelled to protect their lives.”<\/p>\n

Pro-choice members of the Florida House of Representatives, such as Rep. Dave Kerner,\u00a0are criticizing\u00a0the bill as an invasion of privacy, citing Roe v. Wade<\/em>. \u201cI think it’s clearly unconstitutional, I think it violates the rights of women on so many levels,\u201d said Kerner.<\/p>\n

Van Zant’s bill states, “personal liberty is not a license to kill or otherwise destroy any form of human life,” and argues that human\u00a0life “begins at the earliest biological development of a fertilized human egg.”<\/p>\n

In addition to Van Zant’s abortion ban, two other important pieces of pro-life legislation are in play in Florida. One would hold abortion centers\u00a0to the same medical standards as surgical centers. Another\u00a0would block\u00a0state funding for facilities that perform elective abortions, set new requirements for inspections of abortion facilities, and require doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges, as well as\u00a0agreements to transfer patients to a hospital located within 30 minutes of the abortion facility.<\/p>\n

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