Florida Senator Dennis Baxley has said immigrants are replacing Western Europeans because of abortion.
Abortion rights supporters in Florida have hit out at comments made by a state senator claiming abortion had led to a replacement of Western Europeans by immigrants.
“When you get a birth rate less than two percent, that society is disappearing,” Baxley said on Miami’s WLRN. “And it’s being replaced by folks that come behind them and immigrate, don’t wish to assimilate into that society and they do believe in having children. So you see that there are long-range impacts to your society when the answer is to exterminate,” he added.
The Republican lawmaker sponsored a bill during Florida’s last legislative session, aimed at outlawing most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected. The legislation has not passed the state’s legislature as it has in Ohio, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia, Utah. Arkansas and Missouri, mounting a deliberate constitutional challenge to legal abortion.
Anti-abortion politicians in Florida have said they will introduce further restrictive abortion legislation next year. State Representative Mike Hill has said he had been instructed by God to sponsor a bill similar to the legislation signed into law in Alabama in March.
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