¶ Abortion And Family Planning
Highlights:
- DeSantis voted four times to enact a 20-week abortion ban. He voted against exemptions for health of the mother and rape and incest.
- DeSantis voted in favor of a bill to overturn the contraception mandate.
- DeSantis claimed Planned Parenthood “sold baby parts for profit” and posed “unusual hypotheticals” to PP President Cecile Richards during a House Oversight hearing, such as babies being born after botched abortions.
- DeSantis co-sponsored legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and repeatedly voted to defund the organization
- DeSantis repeatedly voted against federal funding for abortions, which forced insurance companies to prominently display whether they covered abortion.
- DeSantis voted against guaranteeing medical privacy to women who received an abortion.
- DeSantis voted at least twice against Washington, DC’s Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Act, which would prevent employers from discriminating against employees based on their reproductive health decisions.