A new bill banning abortion at six weeks, SB 300 (HB 7), limits abortion in Florida and provides additional support to encourage life. Governor DeSantis signed it into law on Thursday, April 13th, just hours after the bill passed on the House floor. Many people have questions about what the new law means. Information from the House Majority Office provides those answers.
The new law was sponsored on the Senate side by State Senator Erin Grall and on the House side by Representatives Jenna Persons-Mulicka and Jennifer Canady. It ends abortion after six weeks, with limited exceptions. The exceptions include maternal life and health of the mother with two doctors signing off on it, fatal fetal anomalies up to the third trimester, and rape and incest up to fifteen weeks, provided there’s proof such as police reports and restraining orders.
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Another part of the law deals with abortion-inducing drugs, which now must be dispensed in person by a physician to ensure that medication abortions are performed by a physician, as currently required by current law for all kinds of abortion.
This is also to ensure that the person obtaining the medication is the same person the doctor examined and the same person who gave informed consent.
The new law also prohibits telehealth for abortions, including medication abortions, ensuring a medication abortion patient has a direct relationship with a Florida physician who can respond to emergency outcomes.
The new law also prohibits using state funds to pay for out-of-state travel to obtain an abortion except in medical emergencies and circumstances where federal law requires states to pay.
The law also expands eligibility for the Florida Pregnancy Support Services Program.
(FPSSP), which provides counseling and supportive services to encourage and promote childbirth, adding families with adopted children under three. It expands FPSSP services to include: nonmedical material assistance (cribs, car seats, diapers, clothing, etc.), counseling or mentoring, education materials, classes on pregnancy parenting, adoption, life skills, and employment readiness.
The law also appropriates $25 million in recurring general revenue to the Pregnancy Support Services Program and $5 million in recurring general revenue to the Family Planning Program at the Department of Health.
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The majority office goes on to explain that several different events would trigger the bill’s effectiveness: if the Florida Supreme Court recedes from its decision in the Re TW or its progeny or determines that the right to privacy in the Florida Constitution does not apply to abortion, or rules in favor of the state in the case challenging the fifteen-week abortion bill. Alternatively, Florida voters could adopt a state constitutional amendment clarifying that the right to privacy does not include abortion.
The new law does not criminalize abortion. There are no criminal penalties for women who seek abortions. The bill prohibits physicians from providing abortions after six weeks, with limited exceptions. If a physician performs an abortion after the six weeks, they may be subject to suspension or lose their license or could be charged with a third-degree felony, subject to five years in prison and a five thousand fine.
Pregnancy support centers provide training to the counselors at the centers. These counselors do not offer mental health counseling or other medical services. Consistent with the program’s primary mission of promoting life-affirming decisions, pregnancy support counselors provide women with information about options and resources available to continue their pregnancy. Some counselors function as peer supports, having been through crisis pregnancies and even abortions.
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