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The numbers from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration come amid a legal battle about the future of abortion rights in the state.

Abortion rights supporters have collected nearly half a million petition signatures for their campaign to place the issue before voters on the 2024 ballot.

Women who had complicated and tragic pregnancies are suing Texas over its abortion bans. A hearing had emotional testimony in an Austin courtroom Wednesday. The state wants the case dismissed.

AHCA filed an order at the state Division of Administrative Hearings ending the case against A Woman’s Choice LLC. It's one of three similar settlements in recent weeks.

Florida abortion advocates are working on obtaining enough petition signatures for a proposed amendment in the state constitution that explicitly protects abortion access.

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds the majority of those who live in states that have barred abortion say they believe it should be available for at least six weeks.

The court will hear a challenge to a 2022 law that prevented abortions after 15 weeks. The outcome will affect a law passed this year that would bar abortions after six weeks.

The state's abortion bans make no exceptions for fatal fetal anomalies. Two women had devastating pregnancy diagnoses — one could leave the state for an abortion, and the other could not.

It's already harder to get an abortion in many places and access is likely to be limited more with the passage of new laws. What happens in Florida could have an especially big impact.

The doctors are weighing tough questions about medical ethics, their own families and whether they can provide good care without risking their careers or winding up in prison. They know a lot is at stake for patients, too.