The highest court in Florida has cleared the way for the state’s six-week abortion ban to go into force, but it is still giving the people a vote on the matter.
A six-week ban that was later passed can now go into effect since the judges upheld the state’s 15-week abortion ban. A six-week prohibition would probably have a significant effect on Florida and Southern women seeking abortions.
However, the court will also allow Floridians to vote in November on whether or not the state charter should seal abortion rights. The majority of Americans support legalizing abortion, but they also support limits.
Lawsuits against 6-weeks abortion ban
Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, and other parties filed the complaint. They contended that the special privacy clause found in the Florida Constitution should stay in place since it has expressly safeguarded the state’s right to an abortion for more than 40 years.
However, state attorneys claimed that few people realized the privacy clause would encompass abortion when it was approved by popular vote in 1980. They informed the court that the Article did not primarily address abortion, but rather “informational privacy”
Following the June 2022 Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the majority of Republican-controlled states have enacted laws restricting or outlawing abortion. Every prohibition has been contested in court.
According to a survey of abortion providers done for the pro-abortion Society of Family Planning, Florida has had the second-largest increase in the overall number of abortions performed after Roe v. Wade was overruled.