Abortion

For decades, reproductive rights groups have warily eyed so-called crisis pregnancy centers that often have the appearance of abortion clinics but in reality push women toward parenting or adoption. These centers also typically discourage the use of contraceptives.

Before the arrest, Sen. Lauren Book (D-Plantation) and party chair Nikki Fried addressed the group. Fried said protests and voting are ways to fight restrictive policies.

The Republican-controlled Senate voted 26-13 to approve the bill (SB 300), which will go to the House, where it is expected to pass. It comes after the U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion-rights ruling and left abortion decisions to the states.

The new proposals come after the Republican-controlled Legislature last year passed a ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office said it thinks the Florida Supreme Court should reverse a decades-old position that a privacy clause in the state Constitution protects abortion rights. It would be a seismic legal shift about abortion rights in Florida.

Florida abortion providers and advocates filed a brief before the Florida Supreme Court Friday asking it to hear their challenge to Florida’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

After the overturn of Roe V. Wade in June, and a state-wide 15-week abortion ban effective July 1, local Planned Parenthood clinics are navigating ways to provide care.

In the wake of last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, we’ll explore what it could mean for abortion access in Florida going forward.

An amendment added to the Florida constitution in 1980 guaranteeing the right to privacy is protecting the legality of abortion in the state, for now.

Hundreds of abortion rights supporters protest on Friday outside the old Lee County Courthouse after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier in the day. The ruling means there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion.