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Florida abortion ban leaves women with few options

The potential fallout from Florida’s looming six-week abortion ban is likely to reverberate across the entire country.

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The state Supreme Court’s Monday ruling to uphold the current 15-week ban and allow a six-week ban to take effect May 1 will effectively shut off abortion access in the South, where neighboring states already enforce near-total abortion bans or severe restrictions.

Right now, Florida is essentially an island surrounded by states with much tighter abortion restrictions or outright bans. There were 84,000 abortions performed in Florida last year, including thousands for women who needed to travel from out of state, according to state data.

Come May 1, almost all of those women will need to find somewhere else to go.

“The Southeast can’t absorb that number with the clinics that are available,” said Laura Goodhue, executive director of the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates.

Advocates warn the law will shutter clinics and force women to travel hundreds of miles across state lines — if they can afford it. Travel is a significant barrier for low-income women, who may wind up carrying their pregnancy to term regardless of complications.

For people living in the southern part of the Sunshine State, the closest clinic where someone can get an abortion after six weeks is in Charlotte, N.C., an 11-hour drive from Miami.

North Carolina bans abortion after 12 weeks and six days of gestation, while also requiring a 72-hour waiting period.

For someone who needs an abortion beyond 12 weeks, the closest states are likely Virginia or Illinois.

Abortion funds, which help cover expenses for people who need to travel, said there just aren’t enough resources to help everyone, and people who need care will be left behind.

“People who need abortions will not have them with this ban. I think that’s just inevitable,” said McKenna Kelley, a board member with the Tampa Bay Abortion Fund. “We’re cutting off the remaining place that people could go to access abortion in the Southeast. And I think that’s going to have really negative consequences.”

 

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One in five women have a personal connection to abortion restrictions: poll

Women living in states where abortion is restricted or banned are more likely to report that either they or someone they know had difficulty accessing abortion services, according to a new survey published Friday from health research group KFF. Nearly two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated federal constitutional protections for abortion, 14 states have outlawed abortion completely, while 11 …

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DNC launches Florida billboard campaign targeting Trump on abortion

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is putting up billboards around Florida hitting former President Trump on abortion after the state’s top court paved the way for a ban on the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect. The effort, which was shared first with The Hill, will include billboards in the Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Daytona Beach areas. The billboards will run in both English …

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CVS drug plans will cover new OTC birth control pill for free

CVS prescription drug plans will cover the first nonprescription birth control pill in the U.S., eliminating a potential cost barrier for many women. The company’s pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), CVS Caremark, said Opill will be added to its preventive services oral contraceptives list for April 2024, meaning it will be covered at no cost for many sponsors. Opill was available in store at CVS pharmacies starting April …

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Nebraska lawmakers to debate a bill on transgender students’ access to bathrooms and sports teams

Last year objections to a Nebraska bill that sought to ban gender-affirming care for anyone under age 19 ground the work of the Legislature to a near standstill. This year supporters of a companion bill restricting transgender students’ access to bathrooms and sports teams waited until the end of the session to advance it for debate, to …

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The Big Story

Florida abortion ban leaves women with few options

The potential fallout from Florida’s looming six-week abortion ban is likely to reverberate across the entire country.

© AP

The state Supreme Court’s Monday ruling to uphold the current 15-week ban and allow a six-week ban to take effect May 1 will effectively shut off abortion access in the South, where neighboring states already enforce near-total abortion bans or severe restrictions.

Right now, Florida is essentially an island surrounded by states with much tighter abortion restrictions or outright bans. There were 84,000 abortions performed in Florida last year, including thousands for women........

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