Posts Tagged Duval County
Florida prisons update shackling policies for pregnant women
Florida teen pregnancy task force: Abstinence-only sex education not enough
Florida Gov. Rick Scott cuts $2million from at-risk women and children program
Last week, Gov. Rick Scott cut close to $2 million in health services for at-risk women and children in line-item vetoes to the state budget. Among the projects cut was $200,000 for a pilot program to be carried out by the Healthy Start Coalition of Orange County More… that would have provided
Fla. Medicaid overhaul could run into conflicts with federal law
According to The News Service of Florida More…, Florida health officials have “less than three months” to develop a detailed Medicaid-overhaul plan to sell to the Obama administration. But whether or not the federal government will give Florida a go-ahead with its proposed overhaul is unclear, due to certain provisions
Jacksonville sheriff not backing down from support for abstitence education group
Jacksonville Sheriff John Rutherford, currently running for reelection, has yet to back down from an endorsement of the city’s controversial abstinence education group Project SOS. #
Project SOS has faced scrutiny More… in recent weeks. The group’s founder, Pam Mullarkey, has questionable ties to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, a vocal advocate for
New legislation could redirect revenue from ‘Choose Life’ plates — but where does it go now?
New legislation could affect More… where revenue from Florida’s “Choose Life” license plates ends up — moving it out of the hands of counties, who then distribute it to adoption organizations, and into the hands of Choose Life, Inc., which would distribute some of the money to various pregnancy centers, and



