TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – On Monday, April 17, at 1:00 P.M. ET, Florida faith leaders, advocates and representatives will come together to call on lawmakers to protect reproductive freedoms in Florida and condemn the newly passed six-week abortion ban. Leaders will join together to protect abortion access because of their faith and moral values, not in spite of them.
As people of faith and conscience, we believe deeply in the values of dignity, compassion, justice, abundance and respect. We reject efforts to impose a single religious viewpoint on all through law or regulation as well as efforts to manipulate and weaponize our nation’s founding principle of religious liberty to block access to or delay care.
WHO:
- Representative Anna V. Eskamani, Florida House District 42, Orlando, FL
- Representative Angie Nixon, Florida House District 13, Jacksonville, FL
- Rabbi Dan Levin, Senior Rabbi, Temple Beth El, Boca Raton, FL
- Rev. Joe Parramore, Founder of New Journey Ministries, Faith in Public Life Action, Quincy, FL
- Gloria Romero Roses, Board Treasurer, Catholics for Choice
- Devon Graham, Florida Assistant State Director, American Atheists, Inc.
- Laura Guren Rodriguez, Florida State Policy Advocate Chair, National Council of Jewish Women
- Kate Lannamann, President and Director, Florida Interfaith Coalition for Reproductive Health and Justice, Inc.
- Jamarah Amani, Southern Birth Justice, Black in Repro
- Od’ Juan Whitfield, Florida Associate Manager, Faith in Public Life Action
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