DeSantis signs Florida's six-week abortion ban into law

[Chicago1980]

Source: CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-six-week-abortion-ban-signed-into-law-ron-desantis/


A six-week ban on abortion was signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Thursday night after the state House, which has a Republican supermajority, passed the bill, 70 to 40 earlier in the day.

Senate Bill 300, titled the "Heartbeat Protection Act," prohibits abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for abortions that risk the life of a mother and abortions up to fifteen weeks for pregnancies caused by instances of rape, incest or human trafficking.

The bill makes it a third-degree felony for physicians or anyone who "actively participate(s) in" an abortion in violation of the ban. It also prohibits state funds being used in any way to help a woman get an abortion from another state, and using "telehealth" or mail to receive abortion medication.

The governor's office released a photo of DeSantis signing the bill surrounded by several dozen lawmakers.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-six-week-abortion-ban-signed-into-law-ron-desantis/

[brush]

1. From my understanding, most women have no idea they're pregnant just 6 weeks into it.

These red states are going crazy. Absolutely. Is the white, go-go booted, little hitler term-limited? How does this stuff end?

[C Moon]

4. He's power hungry. I think he'll fuck up and not be the nominee.

[peppertree]

16. But since he looks like a cross between Joe Pesci and a Smurf, I doubt he had a chance anyway

It's not the 'führer' aesthetic most Republicans want.

(to say nothing of that whiny voice)

[SunSeeker]

11. Yup, for gestational age, they start counting from the 1st day of your last period.

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002367.htm#:~:text=Gestational%20age%20is%20the%20common,from%2038%20to%2042%20weeks.

So 6 weeks would fall around 1 week after you would expect your next period to start. If your period is only 1 week late, which periods often are, you would need to immediately figure out if you're pregnant and get an abortion that day. Impossible. Especially in Florida.

Women will die.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Asshole

Link to tweet

[Freethinker65]

5. Any of those women have sexually active daughters?

And was the photo-op sea of white breeders, except for possibly one, intentional?

[SouthBayDem]

7. Oh, they'll use their money/connections so THEIR daughters can have choice.

"The only moral abortion is MY abortion!"

[SunSeeker]

12. The anti-abortion movement is deeply rooted in racism.

Besides the obvious misogyny, it is all about forcing white women to have babies so whites are not replaced in population share by people of color. It's why Hitler banned abortion.

[brush]

6. All those republican, handmaid women standing there clapping their bondage.

God, help them for they know not what they do.

[flying_wahini]

14. I'd bet you a dollar that half of them have had abortions, too.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. There is no way that I will take that bet

[maxrandb]

18. Guess they learned the optics of these signings with a bunch of old white guys

are bad.

White suburban Karen's are destroying this country, or, at the least, providing cover to its drstruction

[Freethinker65]

3. That action should prevent him from ever becoming President.

Sorry, Florida. You get to keep him. I assume the Florida GOP legislature will propose relaxing those consecutive term limits for Governor very soon.

[ancianita]

13. Exactly.

Don't be sorry! It's for the good of the nation. I live down here and agree that excising Florida like a ruptured appendix can help save the body politic.

77% of America knows authoritarians when they see them.

[tornado34jh]

8. Question

What if the women's family can sue for wrongful death/medical malpractice if an ectopic pregnancy kills them? I wonder what they would say then. Often the ones who are against abortion probably have secretly done it to one of their many mistresses. In fact, I wonder if the president would have the guts to say, "Okay, if you want to ban abortions, those women can then sue you for medical malpractice/wrongful death." Fight fire with fire.

[question everything]

9. It was after SCOTUS voted on Webster that Florida then governor Martinez

rushed to affirm it, or something, in Florida

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1988/88-605

Webster v. Reproductive Health Services

And I remember watching on the TV screen a room full of men in their dark suits - if there was a woman she was not visible - and I thought: how dare they? All these men determining the lives of women!

[SunSeeker]

10. Florida women will die because of this. And it will cause untold misery and loss of freedom.

[Initech]

17. Desantis is a fucking tyrant. He will go too far and be met with a violent end.

[bagimin]

19. I think he's already gone too far...

guns are more important than children and women's health can go to hell.

[Initech]

20. Really telling that he's not actually in Florida right now.

Guess his bills are that unpopular that he doesn't want to be seen mingling with the public?

[riversedge]

21. Chicken little @govDeSantis Signs Near-Total Abortion Ban Into Law in Dead of Night

https://truthout.org/articles/desantis-signs-near-total-abortion-ban-into-law-in-dead-of-night/


DeSantis Signs Near-Total Abortion Ban Into Law in Dead of Night

Abortion rights defenders warn that the six-week ban poses life-and-death risks to Floridians.

By
Brett Wilkins ,
CommonDreams

Published
April 14, 2023


Reproductive rights defenders decried the signing of a near-total abortion ban in Florida overnight by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, a likely presidential candidate for the GOP in 2024.

Republican state lawmakers, which control both legislative chambers in the state, sent S.B. 300 to DeSantis’ desk in order to bar the medical procedure after just six weeks of pregnancy, before most people know they are pregnant. Wasting no time, the governor signed the bill just before midnight.