After a month of updating Floridians on hurricanes, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is now focusing his official office on fighting an abortion rights amendment, holding a campaign-like rally at state expense two weeks before the election.

DeSantis’ event Monday, which was capped with a prayer from the archbishop of Miami and the lieutenant governor asking people to not vote like atheists, came after the Department of Health’s top lawyer resigned over a letter he said the governor’s office forced him to send to television stations in an effort to stop a pro-Amendment 4 ad.

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    9 months ago

    Most of the biology majors in my graduating class went on to become medical doctors, veterinarians, dentists, nurses, or graduate students in biology, and almost all of them were anti-choice and didn’t believe evolution was real (“beyond microevolutionary changes within species”). It’s depressing.