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In 2023, the Florida Legislature passed a "heartbeat bill" banning abortion at 6 weeks, but the law had a trigger provision, preventing it from going into effect unless the Florida Supreme Court first ruled in favor of the 15-week ban. The Court did so on April 1, 2024, [43] [44] and the 6-week ban took effect on May 1, 2024. [43]
Mayes that instead of a 15-week ban on abortion passed by the state in 2022, that the state should follow a 1902 law, based on a pre-ratification 1864 law, that disallowed nearly any abortion except in the case of a medical emergency, [138] though the state government repealed the 1902 law in May 2024 to allow the 2022 law to take precedence. [139]
Despite the federal stance, states opposed to abortion were considering laws to ban access to medical abortion, including out-of-state shipments in the U.S. mail and telemedicine support. [253] Some states seeking to block medical abortion options are also considering censoring information about this option to residents, leading to potential ...
The legislation would leave in place state laws that restrict abortion earlier than 15 weeks of pregnancy.
April 2024 — On April 1, the Florida Supreme Court decides to uphold Florida’s 15-week abortion ban, paving the way for the state’s six-week ban to go into effect May 1. The court also rules ...
Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office said late Tuesday that it thinks the Florida Supreme Court should reverse a decades-old position that a privacy clause in the state Constitution protects ...
Abortions in Arizona are currently subject to a 15-week ban that Republican lawmakers passed in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that year to eliminate a nationwide right to abortion.
The decision comes almost a week after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional protections for the procedure. A judge is blocking Florida’s 15-week abortion ban.