Gov. Ron DeSantis Has Appointed Three Conservative State Supreme Court Justices, 4th Coming Soon
May 24, 2022 | Florida
The prospect of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in June has the Abortion Industry and much of the media suddenly discovering the importance of state Supreme Courts. Many times we’ve talked about state Supreme Courts finding a heretofore unknown “right to abortion” hidden away in their constitutions.
For example, Florida. Gary Fineout writes “Florida is one of 11 states whose state constitutions and courts have put in place abortion rights independent of the U.S. Constitution.”
In 1980 voters approved the privacy measure. It states a resident has the “right to be let alone and free from government intrusion into his private life.” In 1989 “The Florida Supreme Court interpreted that to include within one’s right to privacy, a right to terminate a pregnancy, a right to abortion,” according to Stetson University law professor Louis Virelli.
“Florida’s privacy provision is clearly implicated in a woman’s decision of whether or not to continue her pregnancy,” state Justice Leander Shaw wrote for the court at the time. “We can conceive of few more personal or private decisions concerning one’s body that one can make in the course of a lifetime, except perhaps the decision of the terminally ill in their choice of whether to discontinue necessary medical treatment.”… (Excerpt from LIFENEWS.COM)