Posted on 04/30/2024 5:39:43 PM PDT by Morgana
A law that restricts abortions at six weeks of pregnancy — which is often when a fetal heartbeat can be detected — is set to take effect in Florida on Wednesday.
The six-week abortion restriction is going into effect after the Florida Supreme Court issued a ruling on April 1 upholding the state’s 15-week abortion restriction. The court’s decision to allow the 15-week limit to stand cleared the way for the state’s six week abortion limit to take effect. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed the six-week Heartbeat Bill in April 2023, which contains exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. The state Supreme Court allowed the six-week limit to remain blocked until it could rule on the 15-week limit.
Florida has been an abortion destination in the South, as nine states in the region have passed near-total abortion restrictions, and Georgia and South Carolina have passed six-week restrictions since the Supreme Court handed down its Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the issue of abortion to individual states. Before Dobbs, abortion was legal in Florida up to 24 weeks of pregnancy.
In 2023, more than 84,000 women had abortions in Florida, which is higher than most states. Out of those women, 7,736 reported being from out of state, up from 6,726 in 2022, according to data from the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). The AHCA has already recorded 14,735 abortions this year to date, 1,316 of which were for women from out of state.
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I did not know this.
Well it all end tomorrow!
I don’t like killing babies.
It is just going to end until the pill arrives.
At which point, no one is stopping it.
My sex-ed lecture my senior year in high school....
“Guys keep your pants zipped. Girls keep your knees together.
End of lecture.”
The teacher summed it up well.
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