The bill also authorizes private civil cause of action for certain violations, and provides for civil remedies and damages. However, those seeking an abortion due to said exceptions require documentation, such as a restraining order, medical record, or court order, to legally do so. The bill provides exceptions for rape, incest, domestic violence, human trafficking, or a condition that’s threatening to the mother. It also prohibits physicians from performing or inducing abortion if a fetal heartbeat is detected, or, if a physician fails to conduct a test to detect fetal heartbeat. The bill requires a physician to conduct a test for, and inform a woman seeking abortion of, the presence of detectable fetal heartbeat.
– A bill regarding abortion in Florida titled the “Florida Heartbeat Act” was filed by Florida Representative Webster Barnaby on Wednesday morning.
She said that the ban would also impact women in southern states who rely on Florida as an "option to access care.TALLAHASSEE, Fla. "Republican state legislators in Florida proposed today a bill that would ban abortion before many women know if they are even pregnant, virtually eliminating a woman's right to make health care decisions about her own body," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a briefing on Tuesday. The White House quickly responded to the legislation on Tuesday, saying it would have a "devastating impact on women's health." "I believe that we have a unique opportunity in the fact that the Supreme Court is considering 15 weeks right now, and this would allow Florida to save as many babies as possible as soon as possible after that decision is made," Grall said during a hearing in January 2022. Jenna Persons-Mulicka on Tuesday also filed a six-week abortion ban in her chamber. Erin Grall, a Republican who, when she was in the House last session, introduced Florida's current 15-week ban. The proposal was introduced on the first day of the state's 60-day legislative session by freshman state Sen. The new bill would prohibit "physicians from knowingly performing or inducing a termination of pregnancy after the gestational age of the fetus is determined to be more than 6 weeks, rather than 15 weeks," according to its text, with exceptions for rape and incest or if needed to save the life of the mother - under specific conditions.įor example, two doctors, if available, would have to certify in writing that an abortion is needed to prevent the pregnant woman's death or "avert a serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function." The state currently prohibits almost all abortions after 15 weeks, restrictions that were put in place in July as the state appealed after a judge's ruling that the law violated the state's constitution. I urge the legislature to work, produce good stuff, and we will sign," DeSantis said during a February briefing when asked if he would approve a so-called heartbeat bill that would ban abortions after six weeks. Ron DeSantis has said he would sign should it be sent to his desk. A six-week abortion ban would bar the procedure before many people identify their pregnancies.įlorida Republicans filed legislation to impose a six-week abortion ban on Tuesday, during the first moments of the state Legislature's 2023 session - a bill that Gov.
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