Florida lawmakers pass 15-week abortion ban, send bill to Gov. Ron DeSantis for signature

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : When it was introduced in January, DeSantis said a ban on abortion after 15 weeks is "a good idea."
48% : "I think it's a great day," Senate President Wilton Simpson said about lawmakers approving Florida's most restrictive abortion regulations (HB 5) since the U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision established abortion as a constitutional right in 1973.
44% : State Democrats pushed back at Republicans' assertions that a fetus has achieved personhood and that abortion is equivalent to the taking of human life.
43% : Advocates for a woman's right to an abortion fear the U.S. Supreme Court signaled it was willing to alter the legal landscape for abortion when it agreed to hear the so-called Dobbs case about the Mississippi law.
41% : The battle for abortion could be over, but the post-Roe v. Wade future is just beginning
41% : Planned Parenthood of Florida, the ACLU of Florida, Florida Rising, the Florida Access Network and student groups from Florida State and Florida A&M universities vowed to make abortion access an issue in the 2022 mid-term election and target lawmakers who supported the bill.
38% : ABORTION DEBATE: Supreme Court allows Kentucky AG to defend state ban 'PEOPLE DON'T SUDDENLY NOT NEED ABORTION:

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