A Florida bill, the Heartbeat Protection Act, went into effect on Wednesday, which increases protections for the unborn after six-weeks, as opposed to the state's previous 15-week rule.
The HPA initially became law in April 2023 as part of the Florida Supreme Court's decision that abortion is not a given right under the Constitution.
Florida State Rep. Mike Beltran pointed out, "Florida is well in line with the rest of the region of the country."
Beltran recalled how Florida's 2022 15-week bill coincided with the Dobbs decision, which ultimately led to an increase in "The number of abortions in Florida." Why? Because, as he explained, Dobbs allowed states to pass stronger pro-life laws which caused people seeking abortion in the surrounding area to go to Florida, where the threshold was more moderate.
Perkins noted that the Democrats are still trying to "Paint Florida as extreme." But as Beltran pointed out, Florida's bill is "Still more lenient than much of the rest of the deep mid-South and parts of the Midwest." Ultimately, he urged, "I think that folks in the rest of the South and maybe people in the North are aggrieved that it's going to be a little bit harder to practice abortion tourism."
Despite the good news of HPA taking effect, Perkins raised the concern that this fall " the pro-abortion crowd has put onto the ballot initiative" a measure that "Would enshrine abortion into the Constitution at the point of viability." He asked, "How does that stand, and what do pro-life voters in Florida need to be doing?"
The abortion activists' ballot measure is "Not a moderate thing. It's not just targeted at our heartbeat bill. It completely gets rid of all our."
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