NEWS & UPDATES
Self-managed Abortion, Safe and Supported: Train-the-Trainer Workshops
Oct 27, 2023 01:00 PM
This will be an exciting opportunity for abortion and reproductive rights advocates to learn how to effectively and legally spread information about self-managed abortion with pills.
With laws guaranteeing the right to abortion under attack, we need to claim the power to determine our own reproductive destinies. People are already using abortion pills on their own to end their pregnancies. The pills are safe and effective, but accurate information and support is needed.
Sponsored by Progress Florida.
October 27th – Movie Night with PCTA
Florida Needs the Right to Clean and Healthy Waters
Sign the petition to put this measure on ther 2024 ballot:
Ballot Summary: This amendment creates a fundamental right to clean and healthy waters. The amendment may be used to sue State executive agencies for harm or threatened harm to Florida’s waters, which include aquatic ecosystems. This amendment defines terms, identifies affected constitutional provisions in Article IV governing the executive branch, provides for civil action enforcement, allows attorney’s and expert witness fees to prevailing plaintiffs, and provides equitable remedies including restoration of waters.
Get the petition, more information.
A New Ballot Measure for 2024: The Constitutional Right to Abortion Access
Ed Note: This issue is included again this week and will continue to be included in some form until abortion rights are on the Florida ballot.
As you may have seen in the news, the Florida reproductive rights movement is launching a ballot initiative campaign to protect access to abortion and ensure our personal medical decisions are ours and ours alone to make.
Time and time again, our state government has chosen to ignore the will of Floridians by passing increasingly restrictive laws to limit access to abortion.
Extremist legislators have done this despite polling — and election results — that have shown the majority of Florida voters support access to abortion. With this ballot initiative, Floridians will reclaim our right to control our medical decisions, our lives, and our futures.
To get on the ballot, more than 900,000 petition forms will need to be completed by Florida voters and the ballots must be from all parts of Florida. This is being organized by a new coalition “Floridians Protect Freedom” (FPF).
Instructions and training are available at the FPF web site.
Both Pinellas County Democratic Party offices will be Petitions Collection Hubs for FPF — both offices will be places to pick up blank petition forms and deliver completed ones.
Petition Hubs are located at:
Pinellas County Democratic Party South County Office
2250 1st Ave N.
St. Petersburg, FL 33713
(727) 327-2796
michael.thomas@pinellasdemocrats.com (office manager, email for hours)
North County Outreach Center
1402 N. Martin Luther King Jr Ave
Clearwater, FL 33755
Phone: (727) 230-1812
Hub hours vary. To ensure that the hub will be open and forms are available please call or email the office.
Indivisible FL-13 Contact Information:
Indivisible FL-13 is a member of the Indivisible Florida Network and the Pinellas Coalition For Immigration Justice.
Florida 13 Congressperson Phone Numbers:
Senator Marco Rubio (R): DC (202)224-3041 Local (813)287-5035
Senator Rick Scott (R): DC (202) 224-5274
Congressional District 13 (West of US 19)
Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R): DC (202) 225-5961 Local (727) 610-3980
Congressional District 14 (East of US 19)
Representative Kathy Castor (D): DC (202) 225-3376 Local (727) 369-0201
The last redistricting split Pinellas County down the middle along US 19 with the areas west of 34th Street in the new CD 13 and the areas east of 34th Street in CD 14 along with South Tampa. Indivisible FL-13 retains its original name but maintains the same turf, including the areas of CD 14 in Pinellas County.
