Florida passes six-week abortion ban, one of country's most restrictive

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : With the status of abortion in the Carolinas in limbo, Virginia and Illinois may become the closest states for many Southerners without abortion restrictions.
43% : If Mr DeSantis signs the bill into law, South Carolina will be the only state in the Deep South in which abortion remains legal -- and that is only because the state Supreme Court blocked a six-week ban as unconstitutional earlier this year.
42% : Just a year ago, abortion was legal up to 24 weeks of pregnancy.
41% :Bans on abortion remain politically unpopular, with a sizable majority of Americans disagreeing with the decision to overturn Roe v Wade and favouring the ongoing availability of medication abortion, but the legislation in Florida comes in a very particular context: Mr DeSantis weighing a bid for president.
38% : In North Carolina, where abortion remains legal up to 20 weeks, the defection of a Democratic legislator has handed the Republicans a statehouse supermajority that they can use to pass further restrictions over the veto of Gov Roy Cooper.
33% : Meanwhile, abortion is fully banned in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, and banned at six weeks, before many people know they're pregnant, in Georgia.

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