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Advocacy Action: Stop SB 164/HB 289, the Abusers' Bill of Rights
This broad and far-reaching bill would create a slippery slope that could lead to fertilized eggs and embryos having the same rights as a living person.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Send a message to your state representative and state senator. Add your voice to the chorus of bipartisan opposition to this dangerous bill at
#HB289 passed the committee along party lines. But the fight isn't over. Contact your Florida lawmakers now and tell them you oppose this bad bill. www.weareplannedparenthoodaction.org/a/sb164-hb28...
Advocacy Action: Stop SB 164/HB 289, the Abusers' Bill of Rights
This broad and far-reaching bill would create a slippery slope that could lead to fertilized eggs and embryos having the same rights as a living person.
www.weareplannedparenthoodaction.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
#HB289 passed the committee along party lines. But the fight isn't over. Contact your Florida lawmakers now and tell them you oppose this bad bill. www.weareplannedparenthoodaction.org/a/sb164-hb28...
"While we can agree, while we can all agree, that people should be able to seek justice if someone's negligence causes the loss of their pregnancy, Florida law already allows this. However, if HB 289 becomes law, embryos would be granted the same rights as living people.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"While we can agree, while we can all agree, that people should be able to seek justice if someone's negligence causes the loss of their pregnancy, Florida law already allows this. However, if HB 289 becomes law, embryos would be granted the same rights as living people.
"Other states where laws like #HB289 have been enacted, similar provisions have been used by abusers to maintain control over their victims and to harass health care providers who offer care to survivors of abuse. Don't let Florida be next.
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Other states where laws like #HB289 have been enacted, similar provisions have been used by abusers to maintain control over their victims and to harass health care providers who offer care to survivors of abuse. Don't let Florida be next.
One wrote, "If passed, this bill would jeopardize IVF, chemotherapy, and abortion access if the partner, abuser, or even rapist of a pregnant patient is able to sue for the loss or termination of the pregnancy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
One wrote, "If passed, this bill would jeopardize IVF, chemotherapy, and abortion access if the partner, abuser, or even rapist of a pregnant patient is able to sue for the loss or termination of the pregnancy."
"If a living, breathing child that was born out of wedlock dies, then the father of that child has less rights and less claim to justice, than someone who fertilized an egg after a one night stand based on the language in. #HB289 - Devon Graham @americanatheists.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"If a living, breathing child that was born out of wedlock dies, then the father of that child has less rights and less claim to justice, than someone who fertilized an egg after a one night stand based on the language in. #HB289 - Devon Graham @americanatheists.bsky.social
#HB289 "allows a lawsuit on behalf of a zygote, this increased liability exposure will be devastating to any health care practitioner or hospital that treats pregnant patients and is especially dangerous to OB GYNs who specialize in high-risk pregnancies." - Kara Gross @aclufl.bsky.social #flleg
November 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
#HB289 "allows a lawsuit on behalf of a zygote, this increased liability exposure will be devastating to any health care practitioner or hospital that treats pregnant patients and is especially dangerous to OB GYNs who specialize in high-risk pregnancies." - Kara Gross @aclufl.bsky.social #flleg
"Our concern is that this is an attempt to criminalize abortion care at all levels, but especially unsafe and alternate care that people are being forced more and more." - Harrison Lundy @voicesofflorida.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"Our concern is that this is an attempt to criminalize abortion care at all levels, but especially unsafe and alternate care that people are being forced more and more." - Harrison Lundy @voicesofflorida.bsky.social
#HB289 "makes it more expensive and drives gynecologists out of the state... It makes care less frequent because gynecologists and OB-GYNs are leaving the state, and it is more expensive because their insurance rates are going to skyrocket." - Mark Stevens, ACLU
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
#HB289 "makes it more expensive and drives gynecologists out of the state... It makes care less frequent because gynecologists and OB-GYNs are leaving the state, and it is more expensive because their insurance rates are going to skyrocket." - Mark Stevens, ACLU
The amendment fails.
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The amendment fails.
"If somebody drove someone to another state to get a lawful abortion, could the driver of the vehicle be sued by the sperm donor under this bill?" Rep Greico answers effectively not if the abortion is legal in Florida.
November 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"If somebody drove someone to another state to get a lawful abortion, could the driver of the vehicle be sued by the sperm donor under this bill?" Rep Greico answers effectively not if the abortion is legal in Florida.
"I'm asking these questions out of a general desire to understand, in practical law, the effects I want you to understand." - Rep Gottlieb
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"I'm asking these questions out of a general desire to understand, in practical law, the effects I want you to understand." - Rep Gottlieb
Rep Joseph points out that #HB289 could weaponize the legal system against a pregnant person. " It's kind of like, what do you call that blackmail?"
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Rep Joseph points out that #HB289 could weaponize the legal system against a pregnant person. " It's kind of like, what do you call that blackmail?"
"So if I understand your answer correctly, in the current version of your bill, there are no safeguards to prohibit it."
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"So if I understand your answer correctly, in the current version of your bill, there are no safeguards to prohibit it."
Rep Joseph asks, what's in HB289 to prevent "abusive partners, rapists, one-night stands, et cetera, from bringing frivolous lawsuits?" #flleg
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Rep Joseph asks, what's in HB289 to prevent "abusive partners, rapists, one-night stands, et cetera, from bringing frivolous lawsuits?" #flleg