Punta Gorda rally highlights reversals for women By Craig Garrett, Daily Sun Staff Writer, July 2, 2022. PUNTA GORDA — Downtown weekends are mostly hushed, blocked streets for a farmers market, visitors sipping hot coffee or a cool beer. But this Saturday was different, as hundreds of people protesting recent limits on reproductive rights arrived
By Maureen Dowd, New York Times Opinion Columnist, June 25, 2022. WASHINGTON — “What is happening here?” a distraught Nancy Pelosi asked on Friday. It’s a good question and I can answer it, because I was there at the start of the corrosive chain of events that led to women losing control of their own bodies.
By Sue Erwin, Staff Writer, The Daily Sun, June 24, 2022. Local and state officials reacted to Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision ending Roe v. Wade with celebrations and condemnations. Charlotte County Democratic Club President Teresa Jenkins said reproductive rights are essential freedoms. “Yet, I am certain that Florida Republicans will outright ban all abortion
By John Fritze, USA TODAY, June 24, 2022. WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Friday that Americans no longer have a constitutional right to abortion, a watershed decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and erased a reproductive right that had been in place for nearly five decades. In the court’s most closely watched and controversial case in years, a
By Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post Columnist, June 5, 2022. Washington is broken. Politicians can’t get anything done. They don’t listen to voters. Voters have been making these complaints for decades, but never have they been truer than they are today. The preferences of a supermajority of voters, whether that’s investigating an armed insurrection to topple
By Kathryn Varn, USA TODAY NETWORK – FLORIDA, May 31, 2022 With all eyes on the Supreme Court’s expected decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Marco Rubio and Val Demings stand on opposite sides of the debate over abortion access. And that difference could not have been clearer during two recent events. On May 14, Democratic U.S.
By Teresa Jenkins, Chair, Charlotte County Democrats, May 8, 2022. We are angered, outraged, and offended that women’s lives and their bodies remain subject to political debate. Every poll suggests most Americans support a woman’s right to choose, while Republicans continue to fight to overturn Roe v. Wade. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr.’s draft
Editor’s comment: Charlotte County Democrats and allied organizations were not protesting the lack of action on affordable housing on the local level, but rather at the state level. By Frank DiFiore, The Daily Sun Staff Writer, May 3, 2022. Supportive honks from passing cars were heard at the rally as chants of “Roe Can’t Go”
Miami, FL — As new reporting on a draft Supreme Court opinion confirms what many have feared, that the Supreme Court is preparing to overturn the decades-long precedent of Roe v. Wade, Ron DeSantis has already shown he’ll stop at nothing to attack reproductive freedom in Florida. Polling of Florida voters earlier this year showed that most voters
By Mary Ziegler, Guest Columnist, The New York Times, Feb 17, 2022. In 2019 a wave of anti-abortion laws swept this country — a common enough event in the United States, where hundreds of such laws have passed during the last decade. But these grabbed the public’s attention in a way many others hadn’t. Georgia banned
By Teresa Jenkins, Charlotte County Dems Chair. February is Black History Month, an important time to remember that Black History IS American History. It is due time to pay tribute to the generations of African Americans who tirelessly struggled through adversity to achieve full citizenship in America. Yet, so many contributions of Black people to
Lenny Guckenheimer wrote this letter to our state representative and asks you to do the same by Wednesday, Feb 2nd. His email address is [email protected] Dear Representative Michael Grant, I urge you to vote against HB 5, Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality bill. Cutting allowable abortions by two-and-half months will force women to have unwanted
By IMANI THOMAS and ISSAC MORGAN , The Florida Phoenix, Jan 19, 2022. At least a 100 people filled a committee room in the state Capitol Wednesday to speak about a proposed 15-week abortion ban that, if approved, could change the landscape for women’s reproductive rights. It was the first hearing on the ban, and the vote Wednesday was
Editor’s note: We must defend our Reproductive Rights! Join our Women’s March on October 2, 2021 at 9 am to hear speakers. We will then march over to the center of the Rt 41 bridge. We will meet at Live Oak Point, 5100 Tamiami Trail in Port Charlotte. Please let us know you will join us
Port Charlotte, Florida. On March 16, Americans woke up to another mass shooting, this time across three massage parlors surrounding Atlanta, Georgia that left eight people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, and raising fears of a deliberate attack on the Asian-American community. An attack against one is an attack on all of
By Bill Welsch, Charlotte County Dems writer, and Indivisible SWFL leader August 18th was the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution which stated: “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account
The Voices of the Suffragists will be live-streamed on August 20 at 5:30 p.m. by the Florida Studio Theater (FST). Live actors will tell the stories of the struggles, hardships, and triumphs of women who fought for the right to vote 100 years ago. This FREE event requires registration. Click here. Enter your free ticket quantity
“Decades of progress made to ensure health care for you, your family, and all Americans will be wiped out if Donald Trump is elected again in November.” The chair of the Charlotte County Democratic Executive Committee has recorded an important message to you. Please view it here.
More than 200 marched from Lashley Park in Punta Gorda to the northbound bridge on U.S. 41 for the 2020 Women’s March. Two political candidates, Allen Ellison and David Jones, joined the Charlotte County Democrats. Ellison is running for U.S. Congress in District 17, and David Jones in Florida House District 75. “Women and men
Overall, the state ranks 36 among the 50 states for women’s equality, according to the report. Overall, Florida ranked just behind Mississippi and just ahead of Georgia. (Read more in SUN)
Florida state Rep. Mike Hill said the abortion bill he introduced to the state legislature this year was sent to him by God. Hill made the statements on Thursday while visiting a Women for Responsible Legislation group in Pensacola, and speaking about the bill which is similar to a law that passed in Alabama earlier
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