Fri Feb 24, 2023 – 8:56 pm EST
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — Florida’s attorney general is petitioning for a reinstatement of a pre-Dobbs state law banning taxpayer dollars from being used to bankroll abortion centers including Planned Parenthood.
It’s a move that Florida’s popular Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis “fully” supports.
“The Office of Governor Ron DeSantis is fully behind this action from the Attorney General and we support this move to fully defund Planned Parenthood from any taxpayer support,” the governor’s office said in an email statement shared with LifeSiteNews.
The statement of support comes after Attorney General Ashley Moody filed a motion Wednesday asking the U.S District Court of the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division, to vacate an injunction against the 2016 state law HB 1411.
In 2016, the Florida Legislature defunded Planned Parenthood, but a district court halted the law from taking effect. Now that Roe v. Wade is overturned, we are petitioning the court to vacate the court’s injunction. https://t.co/aotmTqHuyG pic.twitter.com/PVv0TvMszD
— AG Ashley Moody (@AGAshleyMoody) February 22, 2023
Moody’s office said in a February 23 press release the law had “defunded abortion clinics such as Planned Parenthood,” but explained that it
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