Reproductive Rights

It was a great disappointment when the Supreme Court of the United States of America reversed Roe v. Wade in 2022, effectively allowing Ron DeSantis and the extremist Republican Florida Legislature to pass new laws practically ending reproductive freedom and endangering the health of Florida women.

Reproductive Rights in Florida involve critically important issues of personal autonomy, women’s health and liberty, as well as some of the most private and protected family decisions.  This issue also involves important constitutional and ethical considerations, which are best left to the woman and her physician.

Brian Rush will always support women’s reproductive freedom that protects their personal autonomy and privacy for all healthcare decisions.  Florida’s recently passed six-week ban jeopardizes the health of woman and virtually eliminates a woman’s personal freedom to make decisions involving her own life and body.  

Reproductive freedom and women’s healthcare decisions during pregnancy are best decided by the woman, her doctor and family, not by politicians or judges who are appointed by politicians.      

Plan “B” medications that allow women to make safe, early reproductive decisions should remain available and easy to obtain from pharmacies and physicians.

For more than 30 years, Brian Rush has stood up to Republican extremists, including fellow Representatives who led the charge to eliminate Reproductive Freedom in Florida and destroy Florida’s Privacy Amendment.  The Privacy Amendment had long protected women’s health and Reproductive Freedom, but this has now been changed by Florida’s elected Republican extremists.  

In April of 2024, the Florida Supreme Court, appointed by Rick Scott, Ron DeSantis and other Republican Governors, destroyed Florida’s Privacy Amendment and imposed a near total 6-week ban on Reproductive Freedom.  This decision effectively outlaws’ women’s use of “Plan B’ medication and other pregnancy termination services after only six weeks, when many women do not even know they are pregnant.   

At every level of Florida government, extremist Republican politicians and the Judges they appoint, are determined to destroy Reproductive Freedom and the personal privacy of Floridians.  Brian Rush will lead the fight against this extreme Republican ideology, which threatens Floridians’ Freedom of Choice.