Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis made national headlines when he signed a bill late Thursday night that will outlaw abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. The new law is just the latest in a string of strict restrictions on abortion since Roe v Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court in June 2022.
Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis made national headlines when he signed a bill late Thursday night that will. The new law is just the latest in a string of strict restrictions on abortion since Roe v Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court in June 2022.
Prior to the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that overturned Roe, 18 Republican states across the South and West, such as Alabama, Idaho, Mississippi and South Dakota, passed so-called"trigger laws," which . But in recent months, six other Republican-led states, including Florida, have enacted new laws that outlaw abortion at various stages of pregnancy.
. The new law will only take effect only if the existing 15-week ban is upheld by the state Supreme Court in a current legal challenge. The state's top court has a conservative majority.after the Dobbs decision. In August 2022, Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a bill that banned abortion with limited exceptions.
pending the outcome of legal challenges. The Indiana state Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case in January.except in cases of rape or incest for up to eight weeks of pregnancy for adults and 14 weeks for minors. It allows abortions of a nonviable fetus or embryo, and when there is a medical emergency or an ectopic pregnancy. Providers of abortions not covered by those exceptions face up to 10 years in prison.
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