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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 ...