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Much of the attention surrounding transgender care in Florida lately has focused on minors. But a new law that criminalizes providing gender-affirming care to most children is also disrupting access for adults.

Many assault survivors feel like they can't report the abuse due to safety concerns or other reasons, abortion rights advocates say.

Doctors and advocates who help people access safe abortions say a 6-week ban may as well be a total ban. They say it will hurt women, trans and nonbinary people in Florida and around the Southeast.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody asked a federal judge to scrap a 2016 ruling that prevented the state from cutting public money to abortion providers for health services unrelated to abortion.

Florida law requires patients to have an in-person visit with a physician at least 24 hours before an abortion procedure, including for medication abortion. The patient then needs to make another appointment to take the first dose in person.

Doctors base gestational age off the first day of a patient's last menstrual period. But ultrasounds can also be used when that date isn't clear.

Lawyers in Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office filed a 28-page response at the 1st District Court of Appeal, a day after abortion clinics and a physician asked the court to put the law on hold.

A judge denied a request to vacate the stay, meaning the injunction remains on hold until an appeals court — or possibly the Florida Supreme Court — rules on the state’s appeal.

The request was part of a flurry of legal activity after Leon County Judge John Cooper issued a temporary injunction to block the law and the state filed an appeal, which keeps the ban in place.

Judge John Cooper told the lawyers in the case he's likely to rule from the bench after hearing closing arguments, but that might not be soon enough to stop the new law from going into effect.