Florida threatens to
🔥criminally charge TV stations airing #abortion #rights ad

🆘The Florida health department is demanding stations pull the ad,
❇️which urges voters to defeat the state’s six-week abortion ban at the polls

Florida’s health department threatened #criminal #charges for television stations that run a political ad calling for the repeal of the state’s six-week abortion ban,
one of the nation’s strictest.

💥At least two stations received cease-and-desist letters Thursday
written by John Wilson, general counsel from the Florida Department of Health,
❌demanding they pull the advertisement.

The health department and office of Florida Gov. #Ron #DeSantis (R) did not respond to requests for comment.

Wilson wrote that running the 30-second spot was a violation of Florida’s “#sanitary #nuisance” law,
🔸which is commonly used to charge people with overflowing septic tanks or unclean slaughterhouses.

🔥He ordered the stations to remove the ads within 24 hours or open themselves up to a second-degree misdemeanor charge,
which in Florida carries a 🆘sentence of imprisonment up to 60 days and a fine up to $500.

In the ad, Caroline Williams describes how ➡️ Florida’s current #abortion #ban would have put her in an early grave if it had been enacted a couple of years ago.

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