DeSantis spars with NBC reporter Dasha Burns over late-term abortion
Following the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade last year, some blue states have enacted laws scrapping limits on abortion completely. Last month, for example, Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill allowing the procedure at any point in a pregnancy if a doctor deems it medically necessary.
In 2019, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved legislation expanding legal abortion in New York to cover procedures deemed toAPthat Republicans said would have removed any obstacle to abortion anywhere in the US. In April, DeSantis signed legislation to ban the procedure after detection of what supporters call a fetal heartbeat, generally around six weeks into a pregnancy.
That legislation, which has faced legal setbacks, included exceptions for cases of rape, incest or where the life of the mother was in jeopardy., have been apprehensive about his position on abortion. Bigelow has donated $20 million to the DeSantis-aligned Never Back Down Super PAC, but indicated in recent days he would check his spending.DeSantis also recently received flack from a prominent anti-abortion group ,the Susan B. Anthony List, for being noncommittal about a national six-week ban.
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