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Patients often have to wait 4-5 weeks for an appointment at Planned Parenthood's Tallahassee health center due to increased demand, officials said. | Colin Abbey, Planned Parenthood Of South, East And North Florida
January 23, 2024

Out-of-state residents stream to North Florida for abortions

Health centers nearest the border in Jacksonville and Tallahassee have been strained the most since Roe v. Wade was overturned.…

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Rep. Jenna Persons-Mulicka, R-Fort Myers, is sponsoring a bill about lawsuits over "unborn child" deaths. | Colin Hackley, News Service of Florida
January 19, 2024

Legislation allows lawsuits over ‘unborn child’ deaths

The bill would allow parents to sue when an “unborn child” dies because of wrongful acts or negligence.…

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January 5, 2024

Abortion measure has enough signatures for ballot

Now, focus will shift to the Florida Supreme Court, which has to sign off on the wording of proposed ballot…

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January 3, 2024

Supreme Court will consider abortion measure next month

Justices will hear arguments Feb. 7 about whether to allow a proposed constitutional amendment on the Florida ballot in November.…

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Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights outside Orlando City Hall on May 3, 2022. | John Raoux, AP
December 20, 2023

Abortion rights groups claim enough signatures for ballot

Groups behind the push to put abortion rights on the Florida ballot next year have reached a major milestone: They…

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An estimated 2,000 people attended an abortion rights rally in front of the Duval County Courthouse on May 4, 2022. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
November 30, 2023

UNF poll finds support for legal pot and abortion rights

Florida voters largely support proposed constitutional amendments to legalize recreational marijuana and to protect abortion rights, the poll shows.…

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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody. | Steve Cannon, AP
November 1, 2023

Attorney general urges court to reject abortion initiative

Attorney General Ashley Moody filed a brief contending the proposal should be kept off the 2024 ballot because the wording…

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Activists opposed to the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett protested in Washington in 2020. | AP
July 11, 2022

OPINION | What will the literature of tomorrow say?

Reckoning.  That is the word that’s most often applied to this time we’re living in. It began with the confluence…

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Monique Sampson was one of the hundreds of women who gathered at the Duval County Courthouse for a demonstration against a United States Supreme Court ruling that will send decisions about abortion back to individual states on Friday, June 24, 2022. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today.
July 4, 2022

OPINION | Where do the women go? 

As a woman it is not enough to demand “my body, my choice.” We have no solid ground on which…

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Protesters demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court last December in Washington | AP
May 9, 2022

OPINION | Pro-birth is not the same as pro-life

This body carried two children. My son to 41 weeks and one day. My daughter to 40 weeks and a…

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An anti-abortion counterprotester attends a reproductive rights rally in Jacksonville on May 4, 2022. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
May 4, 2022

OPINION | Roe leak changes politics as we know it

“It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives…This is what…