The amendment was proposed by Sen. Lauren Book, who said survivors deserve 'a little grace' and not be forced to carry a pregnancy they didn't consent to.
set to issue rulings later this year on influential cases from Texas and Mississippi that could severely alter or overturn the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade guaranteeing the right for women in the U.S. to choose to legally have an abortion.
Book, a sexual assault survivor, said survivors deserve"a little grace" and should not be forced to carry a pregnancy they did not consent to. Republican Sen. Kelli Stargel, the bill's sponsor, said allowing the amendment would allow the people who commit those crimes to"hide" their acts by forcing victims into abortions, according to The Associated Press.
"If a girl or a woman does not want to carry a pregnancy to term because she did not consent to being raped, none of the members of this committee should be able to deny her a safe a legal abortion because she needed more time," Book said in the meeting of the Senate Health Policy Committee, according to the AP.
Sen. Lauren Book gestures to the audience Wednesday when referencing an experience shared by a member of the public in the Senate Health and Policy Committee hearing for SB 146, a proposed abortion bill in the Florida Senate in Tallahassee, Fla.The Florida bill, along with a similar version that has passed through multiple House committees, according to The Tallahassee Democrat, received support from Gov.
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