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Conservatives don’t understand that abortion is controversial only in theory; faced with a material choice, Americans support abortion rightsIt’s hard to imagine a scenario in which the Florida state supreme court would not have allowed Governor Ron DeSantis’s six-week abortion ban to go into effect. In a challenge to a previous 15-week ban, the court’s seven judges, all of whom were appointed by DeSantis, overturned 35 years of precedent this week in order to find that the right to privacy enshrined in the state constitution does not protect the right to an abortion, as Florida state law has acknowledged it does since 1989.The court’s approval of the 15-week ban will allow a stricter, previously stayed six-week ban to go into effect on 1 May. Justice Charles Canady did not recuse himself from the case, despite <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/06/28/florida-supreme-court-abortion-case-canady-recuse-wife-law-sponsor/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email">calls for him do so</a> from no less an authority than the Florida supreme court’s former chief justice, Barbara Pariente. Justice Canady’s wife, the state representative Jennifer Canady, is a legislative co-sponsor of the newly approved six-week ban. There is no rape or incest exception. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/03/florida-abortion-rights-constitution">Continue reading...</a>

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published: 2024-04-03 10:01:30.000000000 Z
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 guid: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/03/florida-abortion-rights-constitution
title: Florida just crushed abortion rights. But it also created a tool to fight back
 | Moira Donegan
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- Abortion
- Roe v Wade
- US politics
- Florida
- US news
- Women
summary: Conservatives don’t understand that abortion is controversial only in
 theory; faced with a material choice, Americans support abortion rightsIt’s
 hard to imagine a scenario in which the Florida state supreme court would not have
 allowed Governor Ron DeSantis’s six-week abortion ban to go into effect. In a challenge
 to a previous 15-week ban, the court’s seven judges, all of whom were appointed
 by DeSantis, overturned 35 years of precedent this week in order
 to find that the right to privacy enshrined in the state constitution does not protect
 the right to an abortion, as Florida state law has acknowledged it does since 1989.The
 court’s approval of the 15-week ban will allow a stricter, previously stayed six-week
 ban to go into effect on 1 May. Justice Charles Canady did not recuse himself from
 the case, despite <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/06/28/florida-supreme-court-abortion-case-canady-recuse-wife-law-sponsor/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email">calls
 for him do so</a> from no less an authority than the Florida supreme court’s former
 chief justice, Barbara Pariente. Justice Canady’s wife, the state representative
 Jennifer Canady, is a legislative co-sponsor of the newly approved six-week ban.
 There is no rape or incest exception. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/03/florida-abortion-rights-constitution">Continue
 reading...</a>
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url: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/03/florida-abortion-rights-constitution
author: Moira Donegan

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