We're still waiting for FL Supreme Court to decide about abortion rights

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We’re still waiting for FL Supreme Court to decide about abortion rights

Amid the weekend’s commemorations of Roe v. Wade and lamentations over Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, some observers acknowledged the elephant in the room: two pending Florida Supreme Court rulings governing abortion rights.

The state’s high court heard oral arguments on Sept. 8, 2023 in a challenge by Planned Parenthood affiliates and other providers to Florida’s 15-week abortion ban but, more than four months later and now in 2024, has yet to issue its ruling.

If the court does uphold the 2022 law, which anticipated the Dobbs ruling that same summer, a second law banning abortions after six weeks’ gestation would take effect 30 days later. That’s before most people realize they are pregnant.

Dobbs is the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned 1973’s Roe decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion.

The second pending case concerns a proposed Florida constitutional amendment overturning both bans. A group called Floridians Protecting Freedom gathered enough petition signatures to place the initiative before voters in November, presuming the Florida Supreme Court approves its ballot language. But that might not be the case.

The court will hear oral arguments in that matter on Feb. 7.

During a news briefing Monday in the Florida Capitol, state Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book reminded people that the Planned Parenthood ruling could come down “at any time.”

[Old Crank]

1. These hand pucked stooges

Are trying to find the right words to take away peoples rights for bodily automomy. They also know that it will be back in their laps 30 days after their decision if they hold for the state.

Will any of them dare to cross the wounded rat DeSantis after his beat down for president?