Florida abortion ultrasound bill fails on tie vote
A proposed law requiring all Florida women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound — then have a chance to view the image and have it explained to her — failed in a tie vote Wednesday after almost 90 minutes of impassioned debate about privacy, pregnancy and women’s rights that crossed party lines. Key to the defeat were most of the Republican Senators known as the ”Schiavo Nine” for their role in joining Democrats in 2005 to block a measure to insert the Legislature into the Terri Schiavo euthanasia case. Only one of them, J.D. Alexander, of Lake Wales, voted for the measure . . .