​The Florida House passed HB 277 yesterday, moving a bill on to the Senate that not only tells doctors what they need to tell their patients but forces them to tell their patients things that, according to doctors who actually know stuff, just aren't true.More >>

I wonder how the lady on the state seal feels about this.

One of two abortion bills under consideration in the Florida House of Representatives seeks to significantly reduce the amount of time women have to request an abortion, and if it doesn't contradict a Florida Supreme Court ruling, it certainly sidesteps it.More >>

Rep. Allen Bernard West, former "history teacher."

​If you didn't know about Abraham Lincoln's strong anti-abortion policies while he was in the White House, it's probably because they didn't exist.

Rep. Allen West, however -- the former history teacher -- decided to deal an anti-abortion quote to the annual March for Life at the National Mall in Washington yesterday, in the words of the great Abraham Lincoln.

Well, they were actually the words of Ronald Reagan.

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​Once again, the "Florida for Life Act" has been submitted in the Florida Legislature. The bill would ban abortions not related to medical emergencies and would make it a first-degree felony to perform or assist in the performance of an abortion.

Rep. Charles Van Zant has filed the bill on the House side, and Sen. Stephen Wise -- the "Christmas Break" guy -- has filed it in the Senate, which would make abortions legal only if it's an emergency and the woman's life is at risk.

Not surprisingly, the bill uses some Bible-speak to justify the ban.

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​Since a Florida group managed to collect only around 20,000 of the 676,811 signatures needed to put the state's own version of a "personhood" amendment before the voters, they're ditching that one and starting over again.

Initiative petition laws have now changed, making signatures for such petitions valid for only two years instead of four.

Now, as they announce they're starting anew, Personhood FL's petition actually comes with different language in an attempt to presumably ban abortion -- or as some critics claim, it could outlaw even more than that.


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​Despite the dismal number of signatures collected to put a medical marijuana referendum on Florida ballots next year, the chance that Floridians will be voting on a "personhood" amendment -- like the one that failed in Mississippi last night -- is even lower.

The leader of the Florida movement for the amendment says his group has collected around 20,000 signatures -- below the near 30,000 the medical weed folks have collected and well below the 676,811 needed to show up on ballots in the state.

The actual text of Florida's amendment says, "The words 'person' and 'natural person' apply to all human beings, irrespective of age, race, health, function, condition of physical and/or mental dependency and/or disability, or method of reproduction, from the beginning of the biological development of that human being."

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Gov. Rick Scott: Party boy.

​Add this to the list of awkward party themes: anti-abortion bills.

Apparently it wasn't a costume party, but Gov. Rick Scott held a celebration at the governor's mansion this weekend in honor of the four anti-abortion bills he signed into law.

Partygoers celebrated the new laws requiring ultrasounds, redirecting license-plate funds to anti-abortion groups, blocking state or federal health insurance funds from going toward abortions, and sending letters to parents whose children received abortions. It's not clear whether piñatas were part of the weekend bash.

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Choose to give your money to make an extremely uncomfortable advertising campaign.

​Only in Florida -- where the government prefers to privatize anti-abortion license plates.

Florida's "Choose Life" license plates, created by Ocala-based Choose Life Inc., started popping up on bumpers since the legislation was signed into effect by then-Gov. Jeb Bush.

Since the plate's inception, the funds from purchases of the plate have been distributed to counties across the state based on that county's number of "Choose Life" plates.

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