Attached an article from the Miami Herald reporting that the abortion measure introduced by Rep. Trey Traviesa, a Tampa Republican, died in the Senate.
The proposed measure would have made it more diffcult for women tto access family planning services.
Obviously, in the Senate cooler heads prevailed recognzing that women's right to choose should not be curtailed.
Bernd Wollschlaeger,MD
Posted on Sat, May. 05, 2007
Lawmakers can't reach a consensus on abortion bill
BY BREANNE GILPATRICK
No 24-hour wait periods. No preabortion sonograms. No court-appointed guardians for underaged girls trying to bypass the state's parental notification laws.
In fact, Florida won't see any abortion-law changes at all this year, after a controversial bill bounced back and forth between the state House and Senate in the final hours of session, dooming the proposal.
The legislative tennis match started when senators stripped the controversial proposal by Rep. Trey Traviesa, a Tampa Republican, of its controversial provisions.
Among them: a mandated 24-hour wait period and a sonogram before all abortions, with the requirement that doctors give women a chance to see the ultrasound scan.
But when the bill left the Senate and headed back to the House, it contained a list of criteria judges must consider when granting pregnant girls a waiver to Florida's parental-notification requirement.
In the House, Traviesa rejected the bare bones bill and sent it back to the Senate.
That's where the proposal died. The Senate ended the session without taking the bill up again.
The Senate compromise just wasn't acceptable for House supporters, Traviesa said.
''Do we take something small and call it something good?'' Traviesa asked. ``No, we don't.''
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