Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Reproductive rights defenders decried the signing of a near-total abortion ban in Florida overnight by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, a likely presidential candidate for the GOP in 2024. Republican state lawmakers, who control both legislative chambers in the state, sent S.B. 300 to DeSantis' desk in order to bar the medical procedure after just six weeks of pregnancy, before most people know they are pregnant. Wasting no time, the governor signed the bill just before midnight.
Yet Florida lawmakers have rushed this dangerous ban through the legislature with no concern for their citizens and how it will harm them,' Elisabeth Smith, director of state policy and advocacy at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement. 'This bill threatens to end abortion almost entirely amid a growing public health crisis,' she continued.
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