Kamala Harris invokes ‘fight for our freedom’ as Florida six-week abortion ban takes effect
“This is a fight for freedom – the fundamental freedom to make decisions about one’s own body and not have their government tell them what they’re supposed to do,” said Harris, who has become the Biden campaign’s foremost messenger on abortion. She continued: “Starting this morning, women in Florida became subject to an abortion ban so extreme it applies before many women even know they are pregnant. Which, by the way, tells us the extremists who wrote this ban either don’t know how a woman’s body works or they simply don’t care.”
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From crowded to quiet: Inside a clinic as Florida bans abortions after six weeks
The clinic doesn’t track patient demographics, but employees said that anecdotally, most of the people they see aren’t White. It’s unsurprising: Research suggests that 60 percent of Black women now live in states with abortion bans. Black women and Latinas have historically been more likely to get abortions than White women, a trend reflective of the fact that they are more likely to have lower-paying jobs and face more barriers in getting contraception.
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Florida’s 6-week abortion ban takes effect, cutting off access in much of the South
“It’s going to cause delays in care that are going to cost women significant health hazards or risks,” Dr. Daniel Sacks, a provider at Presidential Women’s Center in West Palm Beach, said of the new law.
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Florida’s 6-week abortion ban is now in effect. Clinics in the state are scrambling.
Wednesday’s rollout of the six-week ban was triggered by a Florida Supreme Court decision handed down one month ago, which rejected a legal challenge brought by Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion rights groups to stop the 15-week ban. The Florida Supreme Court decision upholding the 15-week ban dealt an even tougher blow to pro-abortion-rights groups by undoing precedent that used a right to privacy in the state constitution to void abortion restrictions for more than three decades. That triggered the six-week ban to go into effect one month after the decision was handed down.
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