Sen. Rick Scott backtracks on support for Florida heartbeat law, now prefers 15-week abortion ban


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LifeSiteNews— 'I think it’s important we do what there’s consensus' for on abortion, the former governor and current senator says.

CNN—Florida’s 6-week abortion ban set to take effect this week. A stricter abortion law is set to take effect in Florida on Wednesday — dropping the state’s 15-week ban to a six-week ban — and it will likely affect thousands of people seeking abortion care within the first month alone. Florida has become a key abortion access point amid widespread restrictions that have taken hold in the region in the two years since the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade. It’s also one of the country’s most populous states. Last year, 1 of every 3...

NBC News—Biden preps event tying Florida's six-week abortion ban to the 2024 campaign. President Joe Biden will deliver a speech in Florida on Tuesday denouncing the state’s new six-week abortion ban and other efforts to restrict abortion access across the country, according to Biden campaign aides who shared details of the trip first with NBC News. At the event, which is scheduled to take place in Tampa about one week before the state law is set to go into effect, the president will talk about “the stakes of this election for reproductive freedom across the entire country.” Biden...

KTVZ—In Tampa, Biden will assail Florida's six-week abortion ban as he tries to boost his reelection odds. By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is traveling to Florida to assail the state’s forthcoming six-week abortion ban and similar restrictions nationwide. His reelection campaign believes the ban and a ballot measure that would put abortion protections into the state’s constitution could help energize Democrats in the state. They