Florida lawmakers approved the strictest abortion ban in the state’s history last week, which prohibits abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, according to Politico.
, will now go to Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to sign it. The law is scheduled to go into effect on July 1., incest, or human trafficking. The existing Florida law restricts access to abortions after 24 weeks.
Other states across the country, including Arizona and West Virginia, are considering bills that prohibit abortions after 15 weeks, Politico reported, modeled after Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban. On Thursday, the Idaho Senate approved an abortion ban modeled after the six-week abortion ban in Texas.
Florida’s bill was modeled after Mississippi’s law, Politico reported, although lawmakers considered putting forward a proposal similar to the Texas law that allows people to sue abortion providers. The U.S. Supreme Court is now weighing both the Texas and Mississippi abortion laws. When the court heard oral arguments in the case against Mississippi’s ban in December, conservative justices seemed willing to uphold the law, which could erode protections under
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