Senate Bill 164<\/a>, sponsored by Republican Sen. Erin Grall of Fort Pierce, would codify Florida\u2019s wrongful-death statute to recognize an unborn child at any stage of development.<\/p>\nThe measure, if passed in its current form, would allow parents to seek damages such as medical costs, emotional distress and funeral expenses, among others.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy should there be a different standard of care in the medical profession when they are caring for the child inside of a woman\u2019s body? It doesn\u2019t make any sense to me,\u201d Grall said Tuesday in committee.<\/p>\n
Grall has introduced the measure for three consecutive years, but it\u2019s repeatedly stalled amid legal and political concerns.<\/p>\n
Some legislators said they fear the measure would lead to a flood of litigation. Others fear it may lead to litigation at some point against abortion providers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re often very open to consumers having the ability to utilize the courts. But this, to me is an abuse, and it\u2019s done for political and religious purposes, not for civil justice,\u201d said Democratic Sen. Tina Polsky of Boca Raton.<\/p>\n
The bill narrowly cleared its first committee stop Tuesday, with at least one Republican voting against the measure.<\/p>\n
It faces an uncertain path in Tallahassee, where earlier versions have failed to reach the governor\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014\u00a0A proposal to give parents broader legal standing to sue over the death of an unborn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3948,1011,3140,6074,28,6075,1190,2203,2287,139,232,234,233,135],"class_list":["post-33432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-app-health","tag-app-human-interest","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-capital-connection","tag-florida","tag-health-and-medicine","tag-human-interest","tag-jason-delgado","tag-local-politics","tag-orlando","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-tampa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}