In this episode: With the start of the Florida Legislature’s 2026 session approaching, lawmakers just revived two big bills they failed to pass during their last session. One would give fetuses some of the same legal rights as living children — and further cement into law a legal theory known as “fetal personhood” that conservative legal groups want to use to cut off all access to abortion. Another would help fertilizer giant Mosaic Co. fend off lawsuits related to radioactive contamination left behind in the company’s former phosphate mines.

Show notes

The bill’s discussed in today’s show:

Senate Bill 164 — Civil Liability for the Wrongful Death of an Unborn Child

House Bill 167 — Former Phosphate Mining Lands

For further reading (and listening) about fetal personhood and Mosaic’s proposed legal shield:

Florida AG made sweeping claims in confidential abortion case

Florida politicians will go further to interfere with abortion – unless Florida voters stop them

Florida lawmakers may help a mining giant fend off lawsuits

Mosaic’s Next Chapter (Florida Trend - July 2018)

And the the story mentioned at the very end of the show:

Florida lawmakers took instructions from a landowner’s lobbyist. Now Florida taxpayers will pay $83 million for four acres.

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