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The Florida Supreme Court backed that state's abortion ban while allowing a proposed constitutional amendment that could undo that ban to be on the November ballot.

Abortion-right advocates are predicting a national fallout from the Florida Supreme Court’s decision Monday to allow a six-week abortion ban to take effect on May 1. The law will shutter clinics, limit abortions performed here each year, delay care and send thousands of people across state lines to terminate their pregnancies, they said Tuesday. “[This ban] will affect the entire country,” ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida voters will get to decide in November whether abortion rights should be guaranteed in the constitution, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Monday. The amendment would require access to abortions up to the viability of the fetus, which scientists and the medical community have long placed at about 24 weeks, the end of the second trimester. It would need the approval of ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida voters will get to decide in November whether abortion rights should be guaranteed in the constitution, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Monday.

ORLANDO, Fla. — In 2023, more than 7,000 women traveled to Florida from another state to end their pregnancies. They came from hundreds of miles, originating from Texas, Georgia, Mississippi, even Central America and the Caribbean. This was the closest place they could legally get an abortion, given that the majority of the South banned the procedure after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June ...

The state Supreme Court is weighing several abortion-related measures that could affect the entire Southeast.

A challenge to Florida’s stringent abortion regime is currently before the conservative Supreme Court of Florida.

A challenge to Florida’s stringent abortion regime is currently before the conservative Supreme Court of Florida.

Ilbusca/Getty Images(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) -- Florida abortion rights advocates on Friday said they surpassed the required number of signatures needed to put a referendum that would enshrine abortion rights in Floridas Constitution on the states 2024 ballot in November. If the referendum, which needed 891,523 total verified signatures to be placed on the ballot, prevails in November, it will undo Floridas abortion ban and deliver a devastating blow to Florida Republicans, including Gov. Ron DeSanti...

Ilbusca/Getty Images(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) -- Florida abortion rights advocates on Friday said they surpassed the required number of signatures needed to put a referendum that would enshrine abortion rights in Floridas Constitution on the states 2024 ballot in November. If the referendum, which needed 891,523 total verified signatures to be placed on the ballot, prevails in November, it will undo Floridas abortion ban and deliver a devastating blow to Florida Republicans, including Gov. Ron DeSanti...