Florida governor signs law banning nearly all abortions after 15 weeks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Planned Parenthood pledges to stand with patients and fight this until people can get the care they deserve."
49% :Dr. Sujatha Prabhakaran, chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida, told ABC News in March that doctors like herself are "scared and sad" about the legislation's potential impact.
43% : The state-level actions come as the Supreme Court is reviewing a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks.
42% : "Nobody should be forced to travel hundreds or even thousands of miles for essential health care -- but in signing this bill, Gov. DeSantis will be forcing Floridians seeking abortion to do just that," Alexis McGill Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement.
42% : If the Supreme Court rules in Mississippi's favor and upholds the law -- as is expected because of the court's current conservative makeup -- the focus will turn to states, more than half of which are prepared to ban abortion if Roe is overturned, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights organization.
38% : Abortion rights advocates argue that banning abortion after 15 weeks will further harm patients who need care the most, including people of color, people of limited economic means and people who lack health insurance.
37% : Under the law, there are no exceptions for abortion in the case of rape or incest, but it does allow for exceptions if the fetus has a fatal abnormality or in cases when the mother is at risk of death or "substantial or irreversible physical impairment."
35% : "While abortion is very safe, the the higher the gestational age, the more risk there is potentially to patients who have a complication," she said, adding that the lack of access also means some patients will continue with high-risk pregnancies while others will seek other care.
24% : On Wednesday, the Kentucky state legislature overrode Gov. Andy Beshear's veto of a bill banning abortion after 15 weeks, along with several other abortion restrictions.

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