‘This is a violent attack against women’: Florida Senate candidate seeks to channel abortion outrage

Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is challenging incumbent Rick Scott and highlighting his unapologetic and proud' support for the state's six-week ban

A round table on abortion rights, hosted by Florida's Democratic Senate candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, has only just begun, and already she finds herself comforting a woman in tears with a very personal story to tell.

The woman is from Colombia, and speaks softly in Spanish as she tells the intimate gathering of the Miami-Dade Hispanic Democratic Caucus about the distressing decision her daughter had to make to terminate a pregnancy after learning the fetus was not developing.