For many reasons, even those seeking an abortion before six weeks of gestation can be difficult. Most recently, this year, policymakers in Florida introduced several bills that would increase a culture of surveillance around pregnancy and abortion care. Advocates for ending the abortion ban say it’s not only a health issue, but also a human rights one.
“Florida’s near-total abortion ban undermines our health, freedoms and rights as Floridians,” Cheyenne Drews, the reproductive freedom program director for Progress Florida, said in a statement. “Patients are facing delays and denials of abortions and emergency management of pregnancy complications, and now, providers are leaving the state.”
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