Report: Florida’s Six-Week Ban Caused the Number of Abortions to Plummet
Abortion rights advocates march and rally in support of the Yes On 4 campaign in downtown Orlando, Florida, against the six-week ban that will appear on the on November ballot.Willie J. Allen Jr/Orlando Sentinel/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Before Roe v. Wade…
DeSantis’ Government Is Doing Everything It Can to Defeat an Abortion Rights Measure
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) is trying his darndest to prevent the abortion rights amendment from passing in Florida in November.Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Florida government seems to be doing everything it can—including potentially breaking the law—to prevent voters…
Without Heat Protections, Florida Laborers Brace for a Cruel Summer
Peter Kneffel/DPA/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For Javier Torres and other workers whose jobs are conducted outdoors in south Florida, the heat is unavoidable. A new law recently signed by Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, that prohibits any municipalities in the state from passing heat protections…
Florida Supreme Court Approves a Six-Week Ban—And Lets an Abortion Rights Ballot Measure Move Forward
Abortion rights advocates protested in Florida last year as the legislature debated a six-week ban—which will now take effect next month. The Washington Post/Contributor/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Florida’s Supreme Court issued a pair of major rulings today on abortion that will both further…
No Vaccine? No Problem! Florida Wants Your Unvaccinated Kids In School During a Measles Outbreak
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Amid an ongoing measles outbreak in Florida, public health officials are bending the rules of quarantine for unvaccinated children. At Manatee Bay Elementary School in Broward County, Florida, six children have tested positive for measles, a respiratory virus so…
Moms for Liberty Has a Nudity Problem
These books were returned to school library shelves with clothing added.Courtesy Judd Legum Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This story was originally published on Judd Legum’s Substack, Popular Information, to which you can subscribe here. Since its initial publication in 1970, millions of children…