We pride ourselves on providing abortion services and we make sure that women have accurate information about all their options. At Planned Parenthood of South, East and North Florida, we believe that the decision to adopt, terminate a pregnancy or raise a child should be left to a woman, her family and her faith, with the advice of her doctor or health care provider. If she decides to have an abortion, Planned Parenthood will be there for her. In Florida, the following restrictions on abortion were in effect on June 28, 2022: Cooper, who laid out the reasons for his decision, said previous Supreme Court rulings required attorneys representing the state to prove a “compelling” reason for the new abortion restrictions. In the United States, some states issue special license plates that have an anti-abortion theme. Choose Life, an advocacy group founded in 1997, managed to get an anti-abortion day in Florida. As a result, the organization has actively supported groups in other states in tracking “Choose Life” license plates. [28] [29] • In 2017, about 73 percent of Florida counties did not have clinics offering abortions, and 24 percent of women in Florida lived in those counties. [1] The Florida Legislature passed a law banning abortion after 15 weeks of sand for 6 days.

Planned Parenthood is suing a state court to repeal that law, but it is currently in effect. The U.S. Supreme Court recognized the constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. 1973. Wade and affirmed this right in subsequent decisions. Between 1972 and 1974, the state had a mortality rate from illegal abortion per million women aged 15 to 44 between 0.1 and 0.9. [17] In 1990, 1,389,000 women in the state were at risk of unwanted pregnancy. [13] The highest number of legally induced state abortions in 2000, 2001, and 2003 occurred in New York City with 94,466, 91,792, and 90,820 successful abortions, respectively, followed by Florida with 88,563, 85,589, and 88,247, respectively, and Texas with 76,121, 77,409, and 79,166, respectively. [18] [19][20] In 2014, a Pew Research Center survey found that 56% of the population wanted abortion to remain legal and 38% disagreed.

[21] In 2017, the state had an infant mortality rate of 6.1 deaths per 1,000 live births. [22] Florida`s abortion law is modeled on the Mississippi abortion law, which prohibits trial after 15 weeks and was at the center of the Supreme Court`s decision that overturned the landmark 1973 Roe decision. After the Supreme Court struck roe down, DeSantis welcomed the decision, saying he would “work to expand pro-life protection,” but gave no details. Florida law requires a person to have two appointments at least 24 hours apart to have an abortion. Learn more about how this affects your visit. In a statement, the American Civil Liberties Union and abortion providers said they would continue their legal action against the law. “Florida`s devastating ban and myriad abortion restrictions have pushed abortion care increasingly out of reach for our patients. Politicians have turned their backs on Floridians, but we hope the Florida Supreme Court will finally end the damage done to pregnant women in the state. Our patients know what is best for them and their families, and we will do everything in our power to protect access to abortion in Florida. In 2011, Florida was one of six states where lawmakers introduced legislation that would have banned almost all forms of abortion, but it was not passed. [8] The Bill was reintroduced in the following years in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. However, none of these laws have been successfully passed.

[8] In 2022, Florida successfully banned abortions that would take place after 15 weeks of pregnancy. [1] • In 2017, 71,050 abortions were performed in Florida, although not all abortions that took place in Florida were made available to state residents: some patients may have traveled from other states and some Florida residents may have traveled to another state for an abortion. Between 2014 and 2017, Florida`s abortion rate dropped 10 percent, from 20.6 to 18.6 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age. Abortions in Florida account for 8.2% of all abortions in the United States. [1] Abortion is currently legal in Florida until the 15th week of pregnancy, after a law was passed by lawmakers and signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis on April 14, 2022. [1] The bill came under legal review, with a state judge blocking enforcement on July 5, 2022, ruling that the Florida Constitution guaranteed a right to privacy that made the law unconstitutional. However, the State of Florida has appealed the decision, keeping the law in effect while the case is being decided. [2] [3] However, since 2010, the abortion landscape in the United States has become increasingly restrictive as more states pass laws hostile to abortion rights. As of January 1, 2011 and July 1, 2019, states have adopted 483 new abortion restrictions, which account for nearly 40 percent of all abortion restrictions adopted by states in the decades since Roe v. Wade.

Some of the most common abortion restrictions at the state level include notification or parental consent requirements for minors, restrictions on public funding, mandatory counseling designed to discourage people from having an abortion, prescribed wait times before an abortion, and regulations that are unnecessary and too burdensome for abortion facilities. Last year, nearly 80,000 women in Florida were aborted by one of 55 providers. Thousands of women also travel to Florida for abortions, including from neighboring Alabama and Georgia. In 2021, more than 4,800 out-of-state women were aborted in Florida, the third most populous state in the country. Only New York and Illinois have higher abortion rates. In a crushing defeat for Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Florida judge said he would temporarily block a new law that would ban all abortions in the state after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Ultimately, Cooper concluded that the state had not provided enough evidence to justify the new restrictions, saying it was not convinced by the experts the state had presented as witnesses.

Nor did he accept the state`s justification that the new law was constitutional because most women in the state had already received abortions 15 weeks ago and women could simply request one sooner. He said rape victims and victims of domestic violence may not be able to meet the new deadline. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida`s new 15-week abortion ban was blocked and then quickly reinstated Tuesday following an appeal by the attorney general in a lawsuit that challenged the restriction. In February 2009, Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacques Renélique`s license was revoked by the Florida Medical Board. Renelique also had a florida attorney conduct a criminal investigation against him for a 2006 incident alleging that a teenage girl was born during an abortion procedure in which employees at his clinic threw the living creature into a garbage bag to cover the events. [26] #StopTheBans was created in response to the passage of laws in six states in early 2019 that would almost completely ban abortion.