Special Sections Hurricane 2000 Health and Medicine Newcomers Guide Read the latest headlines straight from the Associated Press. In addition, they will back a bill in this spring s legislative session to limit sex education in public schools. I think they have been disappointed that the courts have been ruling in our favor, said Charlie Summers, state director of Planned Parenthood Affiliates. Even last session, they passed bills they knew were unconstitutional, and the governor kept signing them. I think the anti-choice opposition is vested in restricting abortion any way they can.
Opponents deny it.
Basically what you have is judges legislating from the bench, and that s not right. An earlier version of the law was found unconstitutional in federal court on grounds it did not contain exceptions for the life and health of the mother. The state s 2000 version which didn t include the exceptions either was thrown out last summer by the United States Court for the Southern District of Florida. The U.S. Supreme Court then weighed in last June, ruling partial-birth laws are unconstitutional without provisions for the life and health of the mother. Anti-abortion activists oppose such provisions because, they say, they re routinely abused.