Florida has introduced one of the strictest abortion bans in the United States, as early as six weeks into a pregnancy , in what President Joe Biden called "a nightmare" triggered by Donald Trump. “An extreme abortion ban goes into effect in Florida that bars reproductive health care before many women even know they are pregnant,” Biden lamented in a statement. “There is one person responsible for this nightmare: Donald Trump.”
The new law replaces the previous 15-week ban and leaves women and clinics in the Southern United States scrambling for alternatives. Florida was one of the few states in the Southern region where the time limit for abortion was still relatively high, and many women went there to terminate their pregnancies.
Kamala Harris has become the main voice of the campaign on abortion rights and yesterday she was in Florida: «This ban applies to many women before they even know they are pregnant, which tells us that the extremists who wrote this ban did not they don't even know how a woman's body works. Or they just don't care," attacked the vice president from the city of Jacksonville.
The same former president and current candidate for USA 2024 boasted of how the judges he appointed allowed the conservative United States Supreme Court to revoke the national right to abortion in 2022, paving the way for the 21 states which have so far introduced total or partial tenders . Yet Trump, in view of the elections, has evaded the issue, evidently worried by the polls that prove him wrong on the issue. In a recent interview with Time, when asked if he would support a federal abortion ban, he said that if he returns to the White House he will let the states decide.
Florida - where Trump spends much of his time at his Mar-a-Lago resort - is governed by Republican Ron DeSantis, the conservative politician who unsuccessfully ran for the GOP nomination this year. Florida voters will have the chance to scrap the six-week limit in a referendum coinciding with November's presidential election.
(Unioneonline/D)
