Florida's state House has passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would prohibit abortion in the state after 15 weeks of pregnancy, allowing only for exceptions involving 'serious risk' to the pregnant person and fatal fetal abnormality
Florida's state House on Thursday passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would prohibit abortion in the state after 15 weeks of pregnancy, allowing only for exceptions involving"serious risk" to the pregnant person and fatal fetal abnormality, but with no exceptions for rape or incest.
The bill now heads to the GOP-controlled Senate, before it is sent to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who had previously indicated support for such legislation restricting abortion. The bill comes as the US Supreme Court appears poised to uphold a similar Mississippi law that bars abortion after 15 weeks. The fate of Roe v.
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