The Florida Supreme Court on Monday found that the Sunshine State’s constitution’s privacy protections do not extend to abortion, which is the intentional killing of an alive human in a woman’s womb.
The ruling triggers a pro-life law, called the Heartbeat Protection Act, to go into effect as of May 1. The Florida law bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy with exceptions for the life of the mother, rape, incest, and rare fatal fetal abnormalities.
John McCormack, Senior Editor of The Dispatch, broke down the ruling on X. “Florida supreme court upholds state’s 15-week abortion limit that has been in effect since summer of 2022; the ruling will trigger enforcement of the state’s Heartbeat Protection Act (six-week limit) in 30 days,” he wrote.
Writing in the majority opinion, Justice Jamie R. Grosshans touched on the constitutionality of the 15-week abortion limit law and a…
