Orlando, FL: The Center for Reproductive Rights, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit challenging House Bill 5, Florida’s 15 week abortion ban. Today, Judge Cooper granted injunctive relief [from the bench] to delay the implementation of this law. We do not know yet how the long the injunction will be for, or when it will begin.
Here is Representative Eskamani’s response:
“I am grateful that Judge Cooper has ruled in favor of an injunction on House Bill 5, as he clearly understands the unconstitutionality of this 15 week abortion ban under Florida’s Right to Privacy clause. We know this victory will be short lived as the state will no doubt appeal his decision, but it speaks to how critically important our right to privacy is in the Sunshine State, and how its protection expands to private decisions about a pregnancy. These protections matter, especially with the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to dismantle the protections of Roe v. Wade and give all decision making power to the states.
House Bill 5, Florida’s 15 week abortion ban, is medically unnecessary and provides no exceptions for rape, incest, or human trafficking. Floridians have demonstrated in the past and present support for privacy and an understanding that decisions around someone’s pregnancy are personal. Whether you decide to become a parent, choose adoption, or end your pregnancy those decisions must remain between the pregnant person, their family, their doctor, their faith — and not politicians.
Abortion is about freedom, options, self-determination, and a free society. Access to abortion is a right tied to so many other rights, and today anti-abortion extremists are already plotting ways to ban abortion completely in Florida and restrict access to medication abortion too.
This is not the time to shrink, or surrender — we must keep fighting, in the courts, in the legislature, in our communities and at the ballot box.”
“I am grateful that Judge Cooper has ruled in favor of an injunction on House Bill 5, as he clearly understands the unconstitutionality of this 15 week abortion ban under Florida’s Right to Privacy clause. We know this victory will be short lived as the state will no doubt appeal his decision, but it speaks to how critically important our right to privacy is in the Sunshine State, and how its protection expands to private decisions about a pregnancy. These protections matter, especially with the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to dismantle the protections of Roe v. Wade and give all decision making power to the states.
House Bill 5, Florida’s 15 week abortion ban, is medically unnecessary and provides no exceptions for rape, incest, or human trafficking. Floridians have demonstrated in the past and present support for privacy and an understanding that decisions around someone’s pregnancy are personal. Whether you decide to become a parent, choose adoption, or end your pregnancy those decisions must remain between the pregnant person, their family, their doctor, their faith — and not politicians.
Abortion is about freedom, options, self-determination, and a free society. Access to abortion is a right tied to so many other rights, and today anti-abortion extremists are already plotting ways to ban abortion completely in Florida and restrict access to medication abortion too.
This is not the time to shrink, or surrender — we must keep fighting, in the courts, in the legislature, in our communities and at the ballot box.”
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