Florida’s 6-week ban: New abortion reality ‘unimaginable’ in 2024
A longtime Planned Parenthood official in Florida said Wednesday that the organization’s ‘north star’ is to provide care to their patients,
“We’ve prepared a lot of mental health strategies to deal with our staff who have had the opportunity to provide care no matter
Zdravecky led the organization for 24 years before she retired at the end of 2017. She recently returned to serve as interim CEO.
Dr. Robyn Schickler, the chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida, said the new law
The new law provides an exemption for victims of rape, incest and human trafficking, which is available up to 15 weeks’ gestation.
The law requires that if a woman has been the victim of one of those incidents, she must provide a copy of a restraining order,
That was the situation in Florida until the state passed a 15-week abortion law in 2022. The next year, in 2023, Gov
The Florida Supreme Court finally ruled on the issue on April 1, 2024, which allowed the 6-week abortion ban on May 1.
who touted the constitutional amendment on the November ballot which would restore a woman’s right to an abortion up until the point of viability.
“We have a lot of resources available for those patients and we know that making sure that their gestational age is authenticated, we’ll help them determine what state they have to go to.”