Again...just more performance theatre or throwing something at the wall to see if it sticks.
This will fail in court and eventually end up at the SC.
But the real value to the Florida legislature is that it is an immediately appealing act that will keep the right wingers coming to the polls.
I know you don't believe it, but this not
just performance theatre. Even if this specific bill isn't successful in becoming law, they have now successfully planted and cultivated in their supporters minds, the concept that it is acceptable and desirable to refuse medical service to people whom they reject and despise. None of these crap bills are simple one-off attempts just to see what sticks
today. It's far deeper, more nefarious and dangerous, and much larger in scope. The bill won't stick on
this wall, but the idea for it
will stick in people's minds; and that's the point of it. They're laying the groundwork for future support and consent of these kinds of actions, as well as weakening resistance to them, in the time to come. Instill the idea in people's minds, wear down opposition, convince people little-by-little that all this shit is OK to do, and build support for it. It's not about implementing the action now, it's about putting the idea in their followers minds and convincing them to support and condone the action later, when they
do have power to implement it.
It's the same as that analogy about putting a frog in cool water and turning up the heat. If you put the frog in hot water, they resist and jump out. If you put the frog in cool water and gradually turn up the heat, they don't notice and let it happen until they're boiled to death. This is what republicans are doing. Little by little, we let them get away with one more thing, until we're all in camps wondering what happened.
It is what the Nazis did. Propagandize hate and build public support for it to minimize opposition. Later, impose small restrictions that escalate little-by-little in intensity and severity. Justify the restrictions with lies, fear, hate, and power, so people don't fight back. When there is no opposition left, open the gas chambers and ovens.
Just because what republicans are doing does not look
exactly like 1930s Germany on the
exact same time scale,
does not mean it is not the same fascist thing!
And republicans damn well know it.