HB 5 prohibits an abortion after an unborn child has reached 15 weeks of gestation. While other states such as California and Colorado are taking extreme measures against the right to life by passing legislation which denies babies in the womb any rights or protections and provid...
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed into law a bill approved by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. DeSantis signed the bill Thursday after the the House granted final passage to the proposal ea
Amendment 4 would prohibit laws in the state from restricting or banning abortion until fetal viability. It has faced various challenges from state officials even after Florida’s Supreme Court greenlighted it for the ballot in May. The most recent numbers are an increase from April, when the a...
The Florida agency that regulates businesses asked the judge who ruled against it last week to allow the law's enforcement while its appeal is pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The request was made Wednesday in federal court in Orlando. U.S. District Judge...
The abortion debate is heating up in Florida This upcoming legislative session, expect abortion to be a major talking point. Because the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to strike down a Texas law banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, anti-abortion activists see an opportuni...
Florida attorneys had argued that the law banned conduct, such as requiring employees to attend diversity meetings, rather than speech. The court disagreed. “Banning speech on a wide variety of political topics is bad; banning speech on a wide variety of poli...
Six major publishers, five prominent authors and others havesued to have Florida’s book-banning lawdeclared unconstitutional; as with the antiabortion state action, the book-banning law threatens school librarians with felony charges for failing to remove books pu...
ABORTION DeSantis signed a bill banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, but it won’t take effect unless the state’s current 15-week ban is upheld in an ongoing legal challenge that is before the state Supreme Court, which is controlled by conservatives. A six-week ba...
"You all know about the abortion ban so, a 15-year-old can't decide that they want to be trans but they can be forced to have a child? They're that responsible?" asked Sarah Parker, the president of Women's Voices of SW Florida. ...
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