4 Jun 2011 2:00 pm
Medicare fraud criminal Governor Rick Scott of Florida campaigned as a 'small governent' Conservative.Over and over during his campaign he said that he was in favor of small 'leave-me alone' less intrusive government.However his actions since he took office would prove otherwise.Scott issued an executive order that will mandate forced drug testing of public sector workers in this state at least quarterly, despite the Fourth Amendment protection we have in this country against unreasonable search and seizure that has generally banned blanket invasive drug testing like this.This week, Scott signed a bill into law that would require people applying for welfare to be drug tested. The wasteful program created by this law subjects Floridians who are impacted by the economic downturn, as well as their families, to a humiliating search of their urine and body fluids without cause or even suspicion of drug abuse.Yesterday Scott also signed the first of five abortion-restricting bills passed by the state Legislature. The five bills, the rest of which Scott is also expected to sign, force women to undergo ultrasounds prior to having an abortion, prohibit private insurance coverage of abortion care in the new state health-insurance exchange, require young women to prove to a judge that they understand the medical risks of their abortions in order to bypass parental permission requirements, establish state-sanctioned license plates that funnel money to anti-choice "crisis pregnancy centers" and begin the process of amending the state constitution to prohibit the government funding of abortion.Florida Republicans filed a total of 18 bills to restrict abortion rights during the session -- the third most in the country, according to the ACLU, and twice the number of anti-choice laws introduced last year in the state, according to NARAL Pro-Choice America.Meanwhile on Thursday, Governor Rick Scott signed into law a bill that will restrict doctors' ability to ask patients whether they own firearms. I guess gun owners have a Constitutional right to privacy, but women don't.What about female gun owners? I guess they're only entitled to privacy concerning their weapons. Their uteruses are obviously exempt from that right. Edited by MistyBlue, 04 June 2011 - 02:02 PM.