The Florida Independent is reporting on a story that CL originally covered back in October: that Palatka House Republican Charles Van Zant has filed a bill that bans abortion in Florida, providing only an exception to save the life of the mother. Van Zant’s bill would make performing an abortion a felony.
In October, Van Zant told CL that if his bill were to pass, doctors would go to jail for performing an abortion.
“Absolutely. That would be a murder," he said in phone conversation. "He would be involved in the death of the lives of an infant child and certainly there would be penalties.
This article appears in Jan 5-11, 2012.
