Personhood Florida Attempting To Make Contraception Illegal

Personhood Florida is attempting to make abortion illegal in Florida. PF is attempting to place a ballot initiative making abortions illegal. The organization's goal is to make personhood from the moment of conception. Legally, abortions could be charged as murder. The PF web site doesn't answer if a woman medically receiving the abortion could be criminally charged.

Josh Hafenbrack reports PF is going a step further by making several forms of contraception illegal.

The amendment seeks to outlaw all abortions, even in cases of rape and incest. Also criminalized: the morning-after pill and oral contraceptives taken by women, known as the pill. "There are some (birth control) methods that kill a child," said Pat McEwan, who is leading the Personhood Florida group.

The people supporting PF are extremely irrationale. The press conference featured social conservatives blaming abortions for the auto manufacturing crisis and potential Social Security financial insolvency. None of their statements have nothing to do with reality.

PF will lose if they go after contraception. Women will not vote for an amendment that potentially violate their sexual and body freedoms. Florida constitutional amendments need 60 percent voter approval for passage. NARAL and other reproductive rights groups will canvas Florida aggressively, if PF obtains 676,811 signatures. USF feminists and other women successfully canvassed to stop the attempted South Dakota abortion ban. The South Dakota example is what happens when social conservatives aggressively overreach.

Update: the blog Feminists For Choice has more information on Personhood Florida.