(Warning: This column on reproductive rights in Florida might contain graphic, sensitive commentary to Republican male ears.)
“Democracy starts with our skin,” actress Ashley Judd affirmed at the 2019 Women in the World Summit after sharing that she was impregnated by a rapist and chose to have a safe, legal abortion. “We’re not supposed to regulate what we choose to do with our insides.”
So says U.S. constitutional law as well, but when it comes to women’s reproductive health, the degree of governmental intrusion after conception is the stuff that wins or loses elections.
