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The latest Gallup poll also finds increased political polarization. Some 60% of Democrats said abortion should be legal under any circumstances, compared with 8% of Republicans.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, reversing Roe v. Wade, the court's five-decade-old decision that guaranteed a woman's right to obtain an abortion.
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Dr. Washington Hill says many doctors today are too young to have experienced seeing women suffer dangerous infections and fatal complications from attempted abortions.
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If the Supreme Court affirms the leaked draft decision and overturns abortion rights, the effects would be sweeping in states where Republican-led legislatures have been eagerly awaiting the repudiation of a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy.
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AHCA records show 16,623 abortions in 2022, which would be a 38% drop if the trend continued through the year.
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Democrats say it's a "raid on women’s rights" while Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state's abortion law is “the strongest that Florida has seen in decades.”
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“I’m super pissed, I’m just like, 'Get your hands off of my uterus, off of my body,' " said Lauren Lauren Routt, who was among those demonstrating across the state after the leak of a Supreme Court opinon on Roe v. Wade.
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Abortion rights advocates say no matter what the U.S. Supreme Court ruling is, they will continue to fight for safe access to the procedure.
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Politicians across Tampa Bay and Florida reacted to the news of the Supreme Court leak through press releases and on social media.
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The draft published by Politico suggests that a majority of the justices supported overturning the 1973 abortion case. Such a ruling would allow states to regulate the procedure. A Florida ban on most abortions after 15 weeks takes effect July 1.