Think Progress has an article up that’s a head-desk-banger report of another “Florida Man” moment, but this one’s a state representative (it goes without saying that he’s a Republican).
Weeks after the state of Alabama enacted one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country, a Florida lawmaker is looking to follow suit — on the advice of God, according to him.
According to the Pensacola Journal, Hill claims to have received instruction from God while delivering a speech at an anti-abortion rally earlier this year. Specifically, Hill says, God instructed him to remove any or all exceptions for “rape, incest, domestic violence, human trafficking or if the woman’s life is in danger” that he included in his previous bill:
“As plain as day, God spoke to me,” Hill said. “He said that wasn’t my bill, talking about the heartbeat detection bill that I filed. He said that wasn’t my bill. I knew immediately what he was talking about. He said, you remove those exceptions and you file it again. And I said yes Lord, I will. It’s coming back. It’s coming back. We are going to file that bill without any exceptions just like what we saw passed in Alabama.”
Hill told a group in Pensacola on Thursday that he believes his revised bill will pass, and vowed to ignore the advice offered by his fellow Republicans, with an eye toward making his previous bill more acceptable, the next time around. That included offering the aforementioned exceptions, and allowing a woman lawmaker to be the public face of the bill.
[Read more, including what he had to say about that, here: Republican says he will bring near-total abortion ban to Florida because God told him to