{"id":31106,"date":"2023-03-13T13:21:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=31106"},"modified":"2023-03-13T13:21:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:21:48","slug":"abortion-rights-advocates-rally-in-lakeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/03\/13\/abortion-rights-advocates-rally-in-lakeland\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion-rights advocates rally in Lakeland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One day after Florida lawmakers filed bills that would bar abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, abortion-rights activists returned to one of Lakeland\u2019s most visible locations to broadcast their outrage.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Several dozen people assembled in front of Southgate Shopping Center for a hastily arranged rally in response to the two bills filed last week during the opening day of the Florida Legislature\u2019s 60-day session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They held posters in hues of fuchsia and chartreuse bearing such handwritten messages as \u201cWe Won\u2019t Go Back\u201d and \u201cStop The War on Women.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a familiar sight to drivers on South Florida Avenue. Abortion-rights advocates staged a series of rallies last summer after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling on June 24 nullifying the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which had established a federal right to an abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planned Parenthood of Florida organized demonstrations across the state this week in reaction to the new bills. State Sen. Erin Grall, R-Vero Beach, and Rep. Jenna Persons-Mulicka, R-Fort Myers, introduced the measures, SB 300 and HB 7, which would prohibit abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, a stage at which many people don\u2019t yet know they are pregnant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bills follow upon a measure enacted last year setting the limit for abortions at 15 weeks of pregnancy. That law has faced a legal challenge that isn\u2019t likely to be resolved before the end of the legislative session in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One day after Florida lawmakers filed bills that would bar abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, abortion-rights activists returned to one of Lakeland\u2019s most visible locations to broadcast their outrage.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[4749],"class_list":["post-31106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abortion-rights-advocates-rally-in-lakeland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}