Abortion law to bring major changes

On Wednesday, a Florida law will take effect banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

  • By Dara Kam, The News Service of Florida
  • | 4:16 p.m. April 30, 2024
  • State Government
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TALLAHASSEE — Florida abortion providers and activists are girding for a law that will take effect Wednesday, May 1, and prevent abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, severely limiting access to abortion for women in the state and across the Southeast.

“It’s been pretty chaotic,” Michelle Quesada, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of South, East, and North Florida, told The News Service of Florida on Monday.

Planned Parenthood clinics “have been packed” in the days leading up to the six-week limit, Quesada said.

 

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