Not only are they threatening a woman who appears on an ad and the tv stations who air a pro-choice ad for a ballot measure in Florida with prison time, they are spending tax-payer money to air anti-abortion ads against the ballot. There has got to be a law against using tax payer's money to air political ads.
https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/florida-threatens-tv-executive-with?selection=b7d30e81-edec-4a15-a810-b580e8919083&r=2ikyta&utm_medium=ios
"Florida Threatens TV executive With Jail Time for Airing Ad in support of abortion rights.
This November, Florida residents will decide whether to amend their state constitution to protect reproductive rights, overturning the state's near-total abortion ban after six weeks of pregnancy. If Amendment 4 passes, the following text would be added to the Florida Constitution: "No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient's health, as determined by the patient's healthcare provider."
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On October 3, the Florida Department of Health sent a letter to Mark Higgins, the General Manager of WFLA, Tampa's NBC affiliate. The letter, sent by Florida Department of Health General Counsel John Wilson, claimed that airing the ad violates Florida law. Wilson cites Florida's law against "sanitary nuisance," which prohibits "the commission of any act... by which... the health and lives of individuals... may be endangered." Wilson argues that WFLA's decision to air the ad could "threaten or impair the health and lives of women." Wilson advised Higgins that, now that he has been notified that the ad is creating a "sanitary nuisance," WFLA must stop airing it within 24 hours. Failure to do so, Wilson writes, would be a crime punishable by up to 60 days in prison under Florida law. The letter was first reported by investigative reporter Jason Garcia.
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Moreover, Terr told Popular Information that even if the ad was false and violated Florida's sanitary nuisance law, the enforcement of the law against a political ad would be unconstitutional. Terr notes that the First Amendment contains "no general exception for false speech or misinformation, and that's because of the danger of the government having a general power to dictate what is true or false, especially when it comes to political speech." The letter from Floridians Protecting Freedom calls the DeSantis administration's efforts "a textbook example of government coercion that violates the first amendment."
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The DeSantis administration is also diverting taxpayer money to run ads defending its current abortion laws and opposing Amendment 4. The ads stress that women cannot go to jail for getting an abortion, that abortion is still available in Florida during the first six weeks of pregnancy, and that there are exceptions for rape and incest.
The rest of the article talks about how tax-payer money is being used to run the anti-abortion website.
I'm so pissed, I am sending this to every news network and politician despite being on the edge of a hurricanes and with tornados going on.