The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will dramatically alter the landscape for people seeking abortions in Florida. The Republican-leaning state has one of the highest rates of abortion in the country.
. Previous state law restricted abortions after 24 weeks. While 94 percent of abortions in Florida are performed in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, the law nonetheless represents the most restrictive abortion law in the state’s history.
Republicans in the GOP-controlled Legislature spent months crafting the bill and modeled it after Mississippi’s law, which the high court upheld in thecase. That ruling will make any legal challenges to Florida’s law in federal court all but impossible to win., arguing that privacy protections enshrined in the state Constitution the right to abortion by barring government intrusion into people’s lives.
But the state Supreme Court, reshaped by DeSantis, is far more conservative now than when it overturned the parental permission case. Court watchers, abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion rights groups suspect the current state Supreme Court could interpret the privacy clause in a different way, meaning thatFlorida Republicans are now openly discussing several possibilities, including pushing legislation to completely ban abortions. State Rep.
But if anti-abortion Florida legislators gain enough supporters, they may be successful in limiting protections. Incoming Florida House and Senate leaders said in interviews recently that they won’t attempt to whip support for a complete abortion ban but are open to it and will wait to see what the majority of lawmakers want.that “we give the opportunity for a bill to be heard in committee and then see what happens.
“I represent the same number of people that my colleagues in other districts represent, who are going to have their voices heard,” he said. “That’s the difference with
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