No exclusions were granted for situations of rape or incest under the contentious bill that Governor Ron DeSantis passed in April; it was scheduled to take effect tomorrow. Following the US Supreme Court’s ruling to abolish the constitutional right to an abortion, numerous state lawsuits are raging at the same time as the decision.
It is anticipated that the state will appeal to the Florida Supreme Court. One of the 11 US states with state constitutions that provide access to abortion is Florida.
The plaintiffs made the claim that the citizens of the state “think that abortion is a basic right deserving of the utmost protection against government intrusion” in their complaint.
A “brazen attempt to overturn the will of the Florida people,” according to the lawsuit, was made by the 15-week law, which was modeled after the Mississippi law at the center of the most recent Supreme Court ruling.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stated that the law’s goal was to “protect infants in the womb who have beating hearts, who can move, who can taste, who can see, and who can feel pain” after passing the legislation in April. The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops and other anti-abortion organizations in the state had praised the measure in great detail.
Florida, only behind Illinois and New York, has one of the highest rates of abortion in the US, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control.
