NBC’s Immediately present determined that the easiest way to mark Good Friday was to speak to a radical, left-wing activist carrying a t-shirt that learn, “Thank God for Abortion.” It was a part of hysterical protection throughout all three community morning exhibits bemoaning an “abortion crackdown” throughout the nation, with Florida’s new pro-life laws being the newest skirmish within the “battle over abortion rights.”
“Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into regulation yesterday a measure to ban abortions after 15 weeks of being pregnant. That makes Florida the biggest state and the newest to tighten entry to the process forward of a U.S. Supreme Courtroom determination over abortion rights,” fill-in co-host Tom Llamas proclaimed on Immediately. Within the report that adopted, correspondent Kerry Sanders sensationalized: “This morning, Florida is on the epicenter of the escalating battle over abortion rights.”
The reporter hyped how “critics argue it’s unconstitutional and could have ripple results past Florida,” earlier than taking part in a soundbite of Mayte Canino from the Florida Alliance of Deliberate Parenthood Associates ranting: “It is a very merciless regulation that has handed within the state of Florida. Now folks must go to North Carolina with a purpose to entry abortion previous 15 weeks.”
Sanders was then proven talking with “Abortion rights activist Stephanie Loraine Pineiro [who] says the regulation would have blocked her personal entry to the process.” Sporting a t-shirt with the wildly offensive phrase, “Thank God for Abortion,” Piniero blasted the regulation: “As an individual who had a abortion because of a sexual assault, if I used to be pregnant proper now I wouldn’t have the ability to have an abortion.”
When requested about partial-birth abortion throughout a Home Judiciary Committee final November, Pineiro testified that “anyone ought to have the fitting to have an abortion at any time.”
On Friday, Sanders fretted that the Florida laws was “the newest in a collection of strict new abortion legal guidelines enacted in current days, from Oklahoma….to Kentucky, the place the Republican-led legislature overrode the Democratic governor’s veto to enact sweeping restrictions.”
After ABC’s World Information Tonight hyperventilated Thursday night about Florida’s new abortion regulation, on Friday’s Good Morning America, correspondent Rachel Scott decried: “And simply this week alone, a minimum of three states have moved to limit entry to abortion. These are a number of the strictest abortion legal guidelines that we’ve seen in many years and the newest proper there in Florida, banning the process at 15 weeks.”
With the chyron blaring “Abortion Crackdown” throughout the display, Scott sounded the alarm: “This morning, the battle over abortion rights is intensifying throughout the nation….Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signing a brand new regulation banning most abortions previous 15 weeks.” She touted: “Abortion rights advocates vowing to battle it earlier than it goes into impact July 1st.”
A clip performed of Deliberate Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida president and CEO Stephanie Fraim saying: “We’ll pursue getting this stopped in any method we are able to.”
Scott mourned pro-life measures elsewhere:
However in Kentucky, some girls are already going through a brand new actuality. Republican lawmakers in that state overrode the governor’s veto on a brand new regulation banning the process at 15 weeks and strictly regulating entry to abortion drugs. All of it forcing the one two remaining clinics within the state to cease offering abortions for now.
The report on CBS Mornings started sounding practically an identical to NBC and ABC, with co-host Vladimir Duthiers telling viewers: “Florida has joined a rising record of states that need abortion legal guidelines to be extra restrictive. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a invoice into regulation yesterday banning abortions after 15 weeks of being pregnant.”
Correspondent Jan Crawford defined that “we’re seeing this sort of wave of laws as a result of if the courtroom does overturn Roe vs. Wade this summer time, like many individuals count on, then every state goes to get to resolve whether or not or not it’s going to permit entry to abortion.”
Nevertheless, she then offered a slightly simple breakdown of pink states implementing pro-life laws and blue states making an attempt to counter abortion regulation. Crawford concluded: “However you see these political battles within the states, they’re already nicely underneath method.” Co-host Tony Dokoupil chimed in: “Yeah, the stakes couldn’t be larger.”
Total, lamenting fewer abortions was how the networks selected to mark the tip of Holy Week heading towards Easter Sunday.
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Here’s a full transcript of the April 15 section on NBC’s Immediately present:
8:05 AM ET
TOM LLAMAS: Alright, again right here at residence, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into regulation yesterday a measure to ban abortions after 15 weeks of being pregnant. That makes Florida the biggest state and the newest to tighten entry to the process forward of a U.S. Supreme Courtroom determination over abortion rights. NBC’s Kerry Sanders is in Fort Lauderdale with the response. Kerry, good morning.
KERRY SANDERS: Properly, good morning. It is a important step by Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, banning most abortions after 15 weeks. The regulation right here is modeled after the restrictive abortion regulation in Mississippi, which is now earlier than the U.S. Supreme Courtroom and is taken into account by many to be the best problem to the landmark determination of Roe v. Wade in many years.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Florida’s 15-Week Abortion Ban Signed Into Law]
This morning, Florida is on the epicenter of the escalating battle over abortion rights.
GOV. RON DESANTIS [R-FL]: We’re right here right now to defend those that can’t defend themselves.
SANDERS: Governor Ron DeSantis signing a invoice into regulation, Thursday, that bans most abortions after 15 weeks.
DESANTIS: This may characterize probably the most important protections for all times which were enacted on this state in a era.
SANDERS: The brand new regulation, Home Invoice 5, is about to take impact in July. Whereas it permits girls to acquire an abortion if their well being is in peril or if the newborn has “deadly fetal abnormality,” it incorporates no exceptions for rape or incest. Critics argue it’s unconstitutional and could have ripple results past Florida.
What’s your response to this new regulation in Florida?
MAYTE CANINO [FLORIDA ALLIANCE OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD AFFILIATES]: It is a very merciless regulation that has handed within the state of Florida. Now folks must go to North Carolina with a purpose to entry abortion previous 15 weeks.
SANDERS: Abortion rights activist Stephanie Loraine Pineiro says the regulation would have blocked her personal entry to the process.
STEPHANIE LORAINE PINEIRO [CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FLORIDA ACCESS NETWORK]: As an individual who had a abortion because of a sexual assault, if I used to be pregnant proper now I wouldn’t have the ability to have an abortion. [Wearing a t-shirt that says “Thank God for Abortion”]
SANDERS: It’s the newest in a collection of strict new abortion legal guidelines enacted in current days, from Oklahoma…
GOV. KEVIN STITT [R-OK]: We wish to outlaw abortion within the state of Oklahoma.
SANDERS: …to Kentucky, the place the Republican-led legislature overrode the Democratic governor’s veto to enact sweeping restrictions. Florida’s regulation is modeled after a Mississippi regulation banning nearly all abortions after 15 weeks. Now underneath overview by the U.S. Supreme Courtroom, representing probably the most severe problem to Roe v. Wade in practically three many years.
Again in December, a majority of the conservative justices on the Supreme Courtroom indicated that they could certainly uphold the Mississippi restrictive abortion regulation. A choice on that’s anticipated in weeks. Meantime, right here in Florida, Deliberate Parenthood says that they may comply with the brand new guidelines, the brand new regulation right here in Florida, regardless that they disagree with it. Tom?
LLAMAS: Loads of states coping with these new guidelines. Alright, Kerry, we thanks for that.
Here’s a full transcript of the section on ABC’s GMA:
7:12 AM ET
CECLIA VEGA: We’re gonna flip now to the newest state limiting abortion. Florida’s governor signing a regulation that bans the process after 15 weeks of being pregnant. Congressional correspondent Rachel Scott joins us now with what this implies for girls all around the southeast. Good morning, Rachel.
RACHEL SCOTT: Cecilia, good morning. And simply this week alone, a minimum of three states have moved to limit entry to abortion. These are a number of the strictest abortion legal guidelines that we’ve seen in many years and the newest proper there in Florida, banning the process at 15 weeks.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Abortion Crackdown; New Florida Law Bans Procedure After 15 Weeks of Pregnancy]
This morning, the battle over abortion rights is intensifying throughout the nation.
PRO-ABORTION PROTESTERS: That is what democracy appears to be like like!
SCOTT: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signing a brand new regulation banning most abortions previous 15 weeks.
GOV. RON DESANTIS [R-FL]: We’re right here right now to guard life. [Cheers] We’re right here right now to defend those that can’t defend themselves.
SCOTT: No exceptions for rape or incest. The one exceptions, to avoid wasting the pregnant lady’s life or if it poses a severe threat. Abortion rights advocates vowing to battle it earlier than it goes into impact July 1st.
STEPHANIE FRAIM [PRESIDENT & CEO, PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST & CENTRAL FLORIDA]: We’ll pursue getting this stopped in any method we are able to.
SCOTT: Nevertheless it’s not simply Florida. Throughout the nation, a number of states have enacted legal guidelines limiting entry to the process. Simply days in the past, Oklahoma enacted a regulation to make performing an abortion unlawful, punishable by as much as ten years in jail.
TALCOTT CAMP [CHIEF LEGAL & STRATEGY OFFICER, NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION]: The implications for folks in Oklahoma are devastating.
SCOTT: That regulation received’t go into impact till this summer time. However in Kentucky, some girls are already going through a brand new actuality. Republican lawmakers in that state overrode the governor’s veto on a brand new regulation banning the process at 15 weeks and strictly regulating entry to abortion drugs. All of it forcing the one two remaining clinics within the state to cease offering abortions for now.
All of those legal guidelines will definitely be challenged in courtroom and most of them are modeled after Mississippi’s ban on abortion at 15 weeks into a girl’s being pregnant. A problem to that can come earlier than the Supreme Courtroom this summer time and decide the way forward for Roe vs. Wade, George.
GEORGE STPEHANOPOULOS: Janai Norman [sic], thanks.
Here’s a full transcript of the section on CBS Mornings:
7:13 AM ET
VLADIMIR DUTHIERS: Florida has joined a rising record of states that need abortion legal guidelines to be extra restrictive. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a invoice into regulation yesterday banning abortions after 15 weeks of being pregnant. There aren’t any exemptions for rape, incest, or human trafficking. It comes because the Supreme Courtroom is about to overview and doubtlessly overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 determination that forestalls states from banning abortion. Jan Crawford covers the Supreme Courtroom for us. Jan, good morning.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Abortion Rights Fight; FL Is Latest to Pass Restrictive Law Ahead of SCOTUS Roe v. Wade Case]
JAN CRAWFORD: Properly, good morning, Vlad. You already know, we’re seeing this sort of wave of laws as a result of if the courtroom does overturn Roe vs. Wade this summer time, like many individuals count on, then every state goes to get to resolve whether or not or not it’s going to permit entry to abortion.
Twenty-three states now have legal guidelines that may prohibit or ban abortion if Roe is overturned. Florida’s regulation, for instance, it bans abortions after 15 weeks, that’s modeled after that Mississippi regulation now earlier than the Supreme Courtroom. And we’re seeing different Republican-led states do the identical factor. Kentucky has cleared the way in which for its 15-week ban, as has Arizona. And West Virginia is amongst these contemplating it. And then you definitely see these states passing much more restrictive legal guidelines like Oklahoma, that may make performing an abortion there a felony.
Now on the flip aspect, there’s the Democratic states – 16 states and District of Columbia now shield the fitting to an abortion, and different blue states are pushing that sort of laws, or making an attempt to go the route of Michigan, the place the governor, she’s suing to get the state courts to say abortion is protected there.
So, you recognize, we’re not anticipating a choice from the Supreme Courtroom earlier than the tip of June. We don’t know what it’s going to rule. However you see these political battles within the states, they’re already nicely underneath method. Tony?
TONY DOKOUPIL: Yeah, the stakes couldn’t be larger. Jan, thanks very a lot.