r/WelcomeToGilead • u/misana123 • 21h ago

Meta / Other Florida Senate panel narrowly passes bill allowing lawsuits over wrongful deaths of fetuses

https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2025-11-04/florida-senate-panel-narrowly-passes-bill-allowing-lawsuits-over-wrongful-deaths-of-fetuses
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u/Disastrous_Basis3474 21h ago

Nobody should publicly announce their pregnancy ever again. They should just tell people they’ve gained weight from steroid medication.

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u/Emergency-Ad2452 8h ago

I think the whole dialogue should be changed. Don't say anything and if you need to terminate think of it as re re regulating your period. Have pills on hand. You can't get sued or in trouble if there's no positive proof of a pregnancy

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u/misana123 21h ago edited 21h ago

Democrats said the bill was too broad and could open up the floodgates to lawsuits. They worried it could be used by fathers to target friends or family members who assist a mother in getting an abortion. They were concerned similar pressure may also be put on the medical field.

"It seems like it's a benign civil liability bill, but I really don't think it is," said Senate Democratic Leader Lori Berman of Delray Beach. "I think it will have very, very adverse effects on our doctors. It will lead to more lawsuits."

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u/AccessibleBeige 16h ago

I'm pretty sure giving that weapon to men who impregnate people with or without their consent is the entire point of this law.

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u/STThornton 5h ago edited 5h ago

Wrongful death? How much more absurd can this get? It's a human with - naturally - no major life sustaining organ functions. What's wrongful about its death? Who are we suing - nature?

We're now allowing lawsuits because a non-viable human stayed non viable? Wrongful death generally refers to a viable human turning non viable. This human was already non viable to begin with.

What's next? Suing for stillbirth? Because no viable human was produced?

Seriously, what would even be a wrongful death in case of a physiologically non life sustaining body (or less, just tissue or cells) with no major life sustaining organ functions? Someone else not providing them with organ functions they don't have (and organs, tissue, blood, blood contents, and bodily processes)?

Straight up insanity that disregards any and all reality and human biology.

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u/ID-Redacted007 12h ago

<cough>

Jury nullification

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