Last week, the Tampa Tribune editorial board came out in support of Florida's Amendment 6, which would enshrine a prohibition on public funding of abortions in the Florida Constitution.
Although the Trib's op-ed page is notoriously conservative, opponents of the measure said the editorial went over the line with certain language that was full of mischaracterizations.
One line in the piece referred to opponents of the measure as "the pro-abortion crowd."
"No group advocating against Amendment 6 is a 'pro-abortion' group," Ayele Hunt clarified. She's the
executive director of I Am Choice, the leading statewide group opposed to the measure.
Hunt and six others gathered on Tuesday morning outside the Tribune building on Parker Street in Tampa to lambaste the piece. They emphasized that the editorial board was free to endorse or oppose any measure it wished, but Hunt called the "pro-abortion" phrase a "drastic misrepresentation of what we're fighting for" and an attempt to undermine their opposition.
This article appears in Oct 11-17, 2012.