The Children's Era: Abolish Abortion Florida, Proposed Amendment to Florida Constitution (2016)

    The Children's Era: Abolish Abortion Florida, Proposed Amendment to Florida Constitution (2016)

      Abolish Abortion Florida is a group of anti-choice activists who call themselves "abolitionists." They believe the so-called "pro-life" movement supports abortion by legislating around it rather than banning it outright in every circumstance.

      So they want to ban abortion completely, but that's not all they want. They are attempting to put an amendment on the ballot in Florida in 2018 that would prosecute not only abortion, but all forms of hormonal birth control, including "the morning after pill, IUDs, contraceptive implants, and hormonal birth control pills." (Source)

      Dang.

      The amendment claims that people who get an abortion or use hormonal birth control "shall be guilty of premeditated murder in the first degree." That charge is punishable by life in prison or the death penalty in Florida.

      We'll say it again: dang.

      A century after Margaret Sanger's work, there's a group that wants to punish women who use birth control as if they had literally killed a living person. We're pretty sure the Ghost of Margaret Sanger is up for some high-level haunting.