By Marisa Laudadio
3:00pm PDT, Apr 4, 2024
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Florida’s Supreme Court docket issued two important selections regarding abortion on April 1:
First, the courtroom votes 6-1 to let stand a legislation that bans abortions after 15 weeks, a transfer that triggers a extra restrictive six-week abortion ban — which was signed into legislation by Governor Ron DeSantis — that may take impact in Could.
However in a separate 4-3 ruling made the identical day, the courtroom allowed for a November poll measure that may give voters the prospect to enshrine abortion rights as an modification in Florida’s structure.
These selections, specialists say, could possibly be wildly essential within the presidential in addition to Congressional races in November contemplating that, following the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s resolution to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, voters in each single state that supplied an abortion poll measure have supported the appropriate to decide on.
Politicians, lawmakers, commentators and stars within the state of Florida and past have weighed in on the courtroom’s two massive selections. Maintain studying to find out how they’re reacting…
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Donald Trump remains to be formulating his remaining response. “We’ll be making a press release subsequent week on abortion,” the previous president informed reporters throughout a press conference-style marketing campaign occasion in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on April 2.
In a September 2023 interview with NBC Information in September 2023, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for 2024 criticized Florida’s six-week abortion ban — which was signed into legislation by Governor Ron DeSantis — calling it a “horrible factor and a horrible mistake.”
He hinted that he thinks a compromise on the difficulty would assist Republicans, saying, “Aside from sure components of the nation, you possibly can’t — you are not going to win on this situation. However you’ll win on this situation whenever you provide you with the appropriate variety of weeks,” he mentioned.
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“Yesterday’s excessive resolution places desperately wanted medical care even additional out of attain for hundreds of thousands of ladies in Florida and throughout the South. The Court docket not solely upheld Florida’s present ban on ladies with the ability to make their very own reproductive decisions, it is going to possible set off Governor DeSantis’ much more excessive legislation that may stop ladies from accessing care earlier than many even know they’re pregnant. It’s outrageous.
“Florida’s bans – like these put ahead by Republican elected officers throughout the nation – are placing the well being and lives of hundreds of thousands of ladies in danger. These excessive legal guidelines take away ladies’s freedom to make their very own well being care selections and threaten physicians with jail time merely for offering the medical care that they had been skilled to supply.
“Vice President Harris and I stand with the overwhelming majority of People who assist a girl’s proper to decide on, together with in Florida, the place voters can have the chance to make their voices heard in assist of a reproductive freedom poll initiative this November. We stay steadfast in our dedication to defending reproductive freedom in Florida and throughout the nation and can proceed to name on Congress to cross a legislation restoring the protections of Roe v. Wade in each state.” —President Joe Biden, in a press release from the White Home on April 2
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“Florida’s plan to implement a six-week abortion ban is disgraceful and harmful. Let me be clear: For those who want care, New York might be your protected harbor. We refuse to go backwards.” —New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul, on X
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“A 15 week abortion ban–no exception for rape. A 6 week abortion ban–earlier than a mother can get a health care provider’s appointment. FL has the prospect to overturn all of this in November. Let’s assist them. Let’s present the @GOP they’re out of step with America.” –California’s Governor Gavin Newsom
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“Each [decisions] by the [Florida] Supreme Court docket had been unhealthy information for Donald Trump,” “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough mentioned on his present on April 2. “[The] very first thing the courtroom did was stick Trump with Ron DeSantis’s six-week abortion ban — [that] might be terribly unpopular. And the second factor is [it’s] making the election in ’24 a referendum on the six-week abortion ban. That is simply unhealthy for Donald Trump and Republican candidates up and down the poll. Does that imply that Biden’s going to win Florida? It is nonetheless a longshot, however I will inform you what, if I am a Florida Republican, I hate this being on the poll.”
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“The residents of the state of Florida will decide what, if any, abortion rights there might be within the state of Florida [in the November election]. I assist that. I’m pro-life and I know how I will be voting, however on the finish, the folks of Florida will communicate. And I do not consider [abortion] is going to be that a lot of a difficulty. The difficulty that is going to essentially carry the day is the border, inflation, our standing all over the world — and the Biden administration and the Democrats are unsuitable on all three points.” —Rep. Carlos Gimenez, a Republican from Florida, on Fox Enterprise
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“The choice to permit Florida’s abortion ban to stay in impact will hurt not simply the ladies of Florida but in addition hundreds of thousands extra ladies who might need traveled to the state to hunt reproductive well being providers. Trump created this well being care disaster. @JoeBiden and I’ll do every part to cease him.” –Vice President Kamala Harris, on X
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“When states like Florida cross abortion bans, it is arduous to not get discouraged. Properly, a brilliant spot: Modification 4 in FL might be on the poll to guard reproductive rights. That is proper, voters can defend alternative. We have received in all places from Ohio to Kansas — elections matter!” —Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, on X
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“The Florida Supreme Court docket’s resolution will enable Republicans’ devastating 6-week abortion ban to enter impact — earlier than most ladies even know they’re pregnant. Floridians who don’t desire the gov’t interfering with their well being care will resolve in November whether or not this ban stays.” –Senator Patty Murray, a Democrat from the state of Washington
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“Cannot wait to see Florida Republicans twist themselves into knots defending their abortion ban and their predominant spokesperson is… Ron DeSantis” —Senator Tina Smith, a Democrat from Minnesota
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“I applaud the Florida Supreme Court docket’s resolution at this time to permit a poll initiative defending abortion rights within the Sunshine State. Everybody deserves the appropriate to make their very own healthcare selections, and this referendum offers ladies the chance to voice that opinion.” —Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat from Florida, on X