Posted on Thu, Apr. 03, 2008
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BY MARY ELLEN KLAS
meklas@MiamiHerald.com
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TALLAHASSEE --
A woman seeking an abortion in Florida would first attach to get an ultrasound and review or turn down seeing the draw of the fetus, under a test that voted for the documentation Home town Wednesday, largely consume party lines.
Once almost two hours of conflict and questions, the Home town chosen 70-45 to wait for doctors to perform an ultrasound any time a woman seeks an abortion and make the fight close to for review unless the woman signs a paper refusing to see it. A similar calculate is everyday for a aural in the House of representatives adjacent week.
Opponents say the calculate is distinctive dear project predestined to finish women from getting abortions. Proponents understood it is a simple stab at increasing a woman's right to greet upfront undergoing a medical style.
And Democrats perplexed the protracted conflict as a indirect route invented to perturb attention from the state's cost-cutting traffic circle in an choose rendezvous.
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Florida previous to requires ultrasounds on any women seeking abortions in the second or third trimester, but this test would attach Florida join 12 substitute states that wait for them in the first trimester as well.
'This test is all about knowledgeable inherit,' understood Rep. Alan Hays, an Umatilla Republican. 'It does go to end a woman from making the motion to attach an abortion.'
Rep. Joyce Cusack, a Democrat from DeLand, noted that not every abortion hospice has ultrasound jam and inhabit that do will attach to discern patients additional to accept the measures.
Opponents of the calculate understood the style could assess a woman as noticeably as 700, as clique understood the assess would prone be less than 100.
'Let's be viable about this,' she understood. 'What we're enactment is eroding a woman's right to nickname.'
The Home town test, sponsored by Rep. Trey Traviesa, a Tampa Republican, besides contains a new provision for how a minor who wants to get an abortion without getting her parents' inherit can get a judge's suggestion for the measures.
Clumsy Prize
Florida's parental-notice law allows teenagers to come about their parents if they can get a judge's suggestion, but panel of judges attach understood it's a awkward motion they are normally not prepared to make.
The test allows panel of judges to setting full advisors, called guardians ad litem, to help girls review their options and, if a warden ad litem is not close to, the judge can setting political party else. Opponents objected to the change, saying it opens the foyer for panel of judges to setting advisors who set their ideological views about abortion.
A similar test will be heard in the House of representatives adjacent week, understood House of representatives back Daniel Webster, a Coldness Gardens Republican.
But Webster's test includes only the ultrasound provision and does not quality the rations increasing the parental-consent come about chuck. 'I don't think we can pass whatsoever else,' Webster understood.
The unhurried conflict on the Home town crib encouraged a few Democrats to moan that the issue came up to request to the Republican side in an choose rendezvous.
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continue week with the long conflict on arsenal at work and this week with abortion, in attendance appears to be an stab to ward off attention dazed from fateful issues and onto social issues and I'm not unquestionable Floridians want us to be enactment that,' understood Rep. Jack Seiler, a Wilton Manors Democrat who hostile the test.
Inward bound Home town Chronicler Ray Sansom, a Republican, disagreed. He understood the debates on neat issues is just part of the natural flow of legislation as the Republican-controlled workroom advances its position bills.
'Tomorrow and adjacent week, we'll be expenditure a lot of time on the cost-cutting and that will management personal property,' he understood.
Miami Originator shove writer Laura Figueroa contributed to this declaration.Planeet Raymond
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