Thursday’s vote comes as the national debate on abortion has once again intensified after a Texas judge ordered the suspension of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a medication abortion drug. Each amendment failed, and Republicans flexed their supermajority to pass the bill on a 70-40 vote.įollowing the bill’s passage by the state Senate last week, demonstrations broke out at the state Capitol in Tallahassee, leading to the arrest of Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Nikki Fried and Senate Minority Leader Lauren Book. and lasted for more than seven hours as Democrats, who are firmly in the minority in Florida’s legislature, filed dozens of amendments intended to blunt the bill’s impact and to protest the likely end of tens of thousands of legal abortions in the state each year. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo Evelyn Hockstein/ReutersĭOJ will take emergency dispute over medication abortion rules to the Supreme Courtĭebate on Thursday began shortly after 9 a.m. “įILE PHOTO: Boxes of mifepristone, the first pill given in a medical abortion, are prepared for patients at Women's Reproductive Clinic of New Mexico in Santa Teresa, U.S., January 13, 2023. Kiyan Michael, a Jacksonville Republican, said Thursday. Well, that right to choose begins before you have sex,” state Rep. “A woman’s right to choose, I’ve heard people talk about that. Supporters of the bill said they were protecting life. The bill would also ban doctors from prescribing an abortion via telehealth and require medication for abortion be dispensed by a physician, not by mail. Victims of rape, incest and human trafficking could obtain an abortion up to 15 weeks into a pregnancy, under the legislation, if the woman provides a restraining order, police report, medical record or other evidence. “Let’s be clear about the silent part: You just don’t want women to have choice,” House Minority Leader Fentrice Driskell, a Tampa Democrat, said Thursday during debate on the bill.
Opponents of the legislation have argued that six weeks is before many women know that they are pregnant. Under the law, most abortions in Florida would be banned after six weeks.
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