Photo Essay | Abortion In Florida
In Florida, There’s a Growing Gap Between What People Say About Abortion and What They Do
The state just passed some of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws. It also has one of the highest rates of abortion nationally. Inside the coming clash between politics and practice.
A Hialeah Woman’s Care Center could be the busiest abortion clinic in Miami-Dade County, which as Florida’s most populous county has by far the highest number of abortions in the state.
The economy was overwhelmingly the top issue respondents chose as “very important to their vote,” and this was even more the case for Cubans specifically.
PEOPLE PRAY THE ROSARY AND OFFER SUPPORT OPTIONS IN FRONT OF EVE MEDICAL CENTER, AN ABORTION CLINIC IN MIAMI, FLA.
Lauren Routt no longer considers herself religious, but after her abortion she carried a rosary around with her for months, for reasons she can’t really explain.
If Florida’s anti-abortion movement is feeling emboldened by new laws and the Supreme Court’s likely decision on Roe, this isn’t so visible around Miami.
While the number of abortions has dropped nationally, in Florida over the past three years the number has risen some 14 percent.
Rita Noda considers herself “pro-life,” and especially pro-adoption, but it’s complicated: She’s also very pro-women’s rights and doesn’t believe abortion should be illegal.
RITA GETS HER HOME READY FOR HER COUSIN’S DAUGHTER, SOPHIA, 2 MONTHS, WHO SHE WILL ADOPT.
Since her visit to the abortion clinic 20 years ago, 41-year-old Rita Noda now has one one biological daughter and an adopted 46-year-old daughter with Down syndrome.
Signs outside M&M Liquors in Hialeah, Florida.
Most Florida swing voters oppose the idea of an all-out abortion ban, according to Steve Vancore, who owns the Tallahassee-based Clearview Research.
Raul Martinez, a Democrat who served for decades as the first Cuban mayor of Hiealeah, says he doesn’t recognize the city anymore.
Hialeah is is a majority Hispanic and largely Catholic city with five licensed abortion clinics out of 14 in the county.
In Hialeah, the mayor’s a Republican, the state senator is a Republican, and the state rep is a Republican; the city went for Donald Trump in 2016 and he improved his margins there in 2020.
