The text will not enter into force while the Florida Supreme Court does not rule on an appeal filed by several associations against the 15-week limit, arguing that this law violates a state privacy clause.
Why can it be a risk for women?
Democrats warned in session that the six-week ban puts women at risk, forcing them to potentially suffer sepsis or bleed to death because they can’t get an abortion any time soon, as well as pushing them to risk their lives by having to have abortions. illegal.
“This bill prohibits abortion legally, but it will not actually prohibit it,” Democratic Congresswoman Lindsay Cross declared during the House debate. “Abortions will be done in private, without medical supervision and with an increasing risk to the health of women, their physical and mental well-being.”
Democrats tried to push through more than a dozen amendments intended to limit its impact, but all were defeated.
“Let’s be clear about the silent part: They just don’t want women to have options,” House Minority Leader Fentrice Driskell, a Democrat, said during the floor debate.
Despite the 15-week limit, Florida remains one of the most permissive places for abortions in the southeastern United States, prompting numerous pregnant women to travel there from neighboring states to terminate their pregnancies in recent months.