The Florida Supreme Court (yes, the same group who performed so contrary to law in the Bush/Gore election fiasco) has made a truly astonishing decision in favor of a woman's right to know the facts about abortion that abortionists have tried desperately (and successfully) to keep hidden. Even more remarkable is that the decision was unanimous and that it actually overturned two lower courts who had kept the Women’s Right to Know Act from becoming law.“The termination of a pregnancy is unquestionably a medical procedure and we conclude that, as with any other medical procedure, the state may require physicians to obtain informed consent from a patient prior to terminating a pregnancy,” the court said in an opinion written by Justice R. Fred Lewis.
That "informed consent" will include such things as a brochure on abortion's risks to the mother and available alternatives to abortion. It will also present facts about the development of her baby before birth...including pictures. Pro-life advocates know that when such basic information is communicated to women, the number of abortions drop dramatically so this is a very welcome development.
It must also be said, though, that the abortion clinic which originally challenged the Women’s Right to Know Act has 15 days to ask the Florida Supreme Court for a re-hearing and even then the law will not yet go into effect because some other constitutional issues remain at the trial court level. Let's pray they will be quickly ironed out so that Florida women who are considering abortion will be given more light, more freedom, and more respect so that they (and their preborn children) can experience life at its best.
