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Florida Court Allows 6-Week Abortion Ban, but Voters Will Get to Weigh In [1]

['Patricia Mazzei']

Date: 2024-04-01  

The Florida Supreme Court overturned decades of legal precedent on Monday in ruling that the State Constitution’s privacy protections do not extend to abortion, effectively allowing Florida to ban the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy.

But in a separate decision released at the same time, the justices allowed Florida voters to decide this fall whether to expand abortion access. The court ruled 4 to 3 that a proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to abortion “before viability,” usually around 24 weeks, could go on the November ballot.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/us/florida-abortion-law-supreme-court.html

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