abortions

The state cites the 11th Circuit appellate panel's decision in a "virtually identical case" in asking the court to allow a law preventing minors from receiving puberty blockers and hormone therapy.

Several justices questioned whether the court should give deference to the Legislature on abortion, particularly since the word does not appear specifically in the privacy clause and debate at the time it was enacted is inconclusive.

The 600,000 signatures garnered so far means the proposal can go before the Florida Supreme Court for review.

The high court threw out all federal criminal penalties for abortion, in a ruling that will require the nation's public health service to offer the procedure to anyone who requests it.

Oral arguments are scheduled. Since the Legislature passed the 15-week ban, lawmakers approved a six-week limit. So if the court upholds the 2022 law, the shorter term will go into effect.

Though health policies in general got little airtime, the discussion of whether candidates support a federal abortion ban underscored how Republicans, in a post-Roe environment, face political challenges on the issue.

The state's newly all-male Supreme Court has reversed course on abortion, upholding a ban on most such procedures after just weeks of pregnancy.

Stark, plaintive testimony from women denied abortion care represents the start of “the 50-year fight to get rid of Dobbs,” one historian says.

Activists on both sides of Florida's abortion access debate are working toward ballot measures that would enshrine their views in the state constitution.

Florida’s six-week abortion law allows exemptions in cases of rape, incest and human trafficking and to save the health or life of the mother. But the recent history of such exemptions in other states suggests that very few women will be able to take advantage of them.