Florida House expected to pass the ban on abortions within 15 weeks

Florida House expected to pass the ban on abortions within 15 weeks. 

The Florida House of Representatives is expected on Wednesday to approve the ban on abortions within 15 weeks after the start of pregnancy. 

It is an idea that several Republican-led states are pushing for as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of these limits.

The Florida move will drastically reduce the availability of late-term abortions to women in all of the U.S. Southeast, many of who travel thousands of miles just to stop pregnancy due to the stricter laws regarding abortions in the surrounding states.

The legislation is set to pass through the state Senate. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has expressed his support for the bill.

Republican lawmakers across the nation have proposed bills similar to Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, which is currently being reviewed in the Supreme Court. 

In Arizona, the Senate and West Virginia’s House also adopted similar 15-week abortion bans Tuesday.

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The Supreme Court has signaled its willingness to let Mississippi’s law remain in force even though it does not agree in the wake of 1973’s Roe v. 

Wade’s decision allowed an unborn baby’s termination within the United States before a fetus is viable, usually about 24 weeks.

Florida’s law only allows exceptions to the 15-week rule when the mother is in danger of dying or “irreversible physical impairment,” and the fetus exhibits a fatal abnormality. There are no exceptions for rape or incest are allowed.

The state allows abortions for up to 24 weeks with no obligatory waiting period. This means that a woman can terminate her pregnancy on the same day she shows up at the clinic.

A survey conducted in 2017 by the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion-rights research organization, discovered that there were 65 abortion clinics in Florida in the year 2017, more than triple the amount for any state of the South.

“There is in the past, and acceptance for clinics offering abortions, even when the political climate is extremely hostile to abortion while restrictions are modified,” said Elizabeth Nash, an expert in state policy of the Guttmacher Institute. 

“So an abortion ban that lasts 15 weeks could have a significant impact on the accessibility to healthcare for Floridians as well as those from South Florida.” South.”

Anti-abortion lawmakers hope that the bans for 15 weeks can stand up to legal challenges, as Mississippi’s case is still pending. The Supreme Court’s decision on the matter is expected in spring.