Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell campaigned across Tampa, meeting with voters and discussing the importance of protecting reproductive freedom in Florida, lowering costs, and protecting access to affordable health care for working families.
“If one thing is clear, it’s that Tampa women see right through Rick Scott’s attempts to lie about his anti-abortion, anti-IVF, and anti-contraception record,” said Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell. “This shouldn’t be a political issue. The government has no place interfering in the deeply personal, private decision of when to start a family. Rick Scott is failing at his job, leaving Floridians to bear the brunt of his extreme policies. Floridians won’t forget that at the ballot box.”
The Democratic candidate said she knows that the decision to have an abortion is a decision that must be made between a woman, her family, and her doctor — not “extremist politicians” who want to criminalize health care providers.
Florida Democrats say the six week ban in Florida, along with abortion bans around the country, are putting women’s lives at risk by increasing the risk of maternal mortality and ultimately stripping them of their fundamental freedoms. They attack Republican Senator Rick Scott as an “extremist” because he cosponsored a national abortion ban in the Senate and enthusiastically threw his support behind the six week ban in Florida, which they note is before most women know they are pregnant.
The event in Tampa shows the Democrat is focused on Central Florida in her statewide push to rally voters for change in November.
U.S. Senate candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell also campaigned with Congresswoman Kathy Castor and State Representative Susan Valdes in Tampa.
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell said she trusts Floridians, not Rick Scott, to make their own health care decisions. The Florida Democratic Party believes abortion and women’s reproductive health access could be enough to defeat the Republican incumbent Senator.
