Even with Florida bracing to be hit by a second hurricane in a little more than a week–which some might interpret as a sign from God that He doesn’t like the management of the region–Republican Governor and boot enthusiast Ron DeSantis knows the Culture Wars never end: the Florida Department of Health threatened a local television station with legal action for airing an ad for an abortion amendment on November’s ballot, AdWeek reports.
According to the letter sent to Tampa NBC affiliate WFLA, the ad includes information that is “false” and “dangerous” that the Department could “[i]nstitute criminal proceedings in the county court in the jurisdiction of which the condition exists against all persons failing to comply with notices to correct sanitary nuisance conditions.”
The “sanitary nuisance” the Department claims to have spotted is that the pro-choice ad asserts that Florida now bans lifesaving abortions: a woman who became pregnant while fighting cancer. “The doctors knew that if I did not end my pregnancy, I would lose my baby, I would lose my life, and my daughter would lose her mom. Florida has now banned abortion … even in cases like mine. Amendment 4 is gonna protect women like me.”