Florida is threatening to prosecute TV stations over an abortion rights ad. The FCC chief calls it ‘

I'm not discarding it altogether; it just doesn't do what you say it does. The only mention of "other life-threatening conditions" in the text of the administrative law is a requirement that hospitals keep records of when that reason is used to end pregnancies ... and presumably one of the reasons for that is so potential prosecutors can have records to file criminal charges if they want to split hairs about what is "necessary".

I don't understand your last statement. If only 3 pregnancy-ending procedures are exempt from being reported as abortions, then what is the problem with pointing that only 3 procedures are exempt? If I'm wrong, then what other pregnancy terminating procedures are exempt from being reported, and why doesn't the rule say it?

 

I hopefully added context to that with my edit. What I am saying is just because only 3 are listed does not mean only 3 are excluded. I'm not aware of all the possible circumstances which could warrant an exception. But my final point was this has to do with reporting. Do we know that other allowable procedures that involved the termination of life would need to be unreportable (as abortion) to be allowable?

Go GATORS!
,WESGATORS

 

Abortion is Reproductive Rights.

Also, slavery is Human Resources.

 

This is interesting:
Why the DeSantis administration lawyer who threatened TV stations over abortion ad quit
When he abruptly resigned from his post last week, the top attorney for the Florida Department of Health suggested in a resignation letter that he was uncomfortable with decisions taken by the state agency, which days earlier had threatened to prosecute television stations over political advertisements.

“A man is nothing without his conscience,” John Wilson wrote in a resignation letter obtained by the Herald/Times. “It has become clear in recent days that I cannot join you on the road that lies before the agency.”

His resignation came seven days after he sent cease-and-desist letters to Florida television stations that threatened to criminally prosecute them if they did not take down political advertisements in support of Amendment 4, a ballot measure that if approved on Nov. 5 would broaden access to abortion.
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BTW, a federal judge just issued a TRO barring the state from taking action against the TV stations over the ad. Shocker, their threats violate the First Amendment. (We did, after all, just have a damn Supreme Court case where New York got smacked down for doing a similar thing to the NRA. But hey, when has DeSantis ever cared about the Constitution?)

 

A Captain Ron presidency would have been much more dangerous

 

To the point:

“To keep it simple for the State of Florida: it’s the First Amendment, stupid.”
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/17/media/florida-judge-tv-abortion-rights-ad-health/index.html

 

Perhaps, Rick, the judge's words to the State of Florida will provide some guidance for you on this constitutional issue.:

 

It was linked in the CNN article, but for those that didn't see or didn't click, here is the Order from yesterday.

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