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24 Hour Abortion Waiting Period Bill On Hold Again

April 25th, 2016 by flanews

Since last year, a controversial law requiring women to wait 24 hours before they can get an abortion has been bogged down in ongoing legal fights.  As Matt Galka tells us, the law – which has been on and off the books for nearly a year – is stalled once again.

Momentum swung back towards pro-choice supporters as the state’s supreme court put another temporary halt to a 24 hour abortion waiting period law.

The law requires women to make two visits to a clinic before they can go forward with an abortion.  It was in effect for one day last July before an injunction stopped it.  The American Civil Liberties Union is one of the groups suing the state.

“They should not be forced to delay the procedure, they should not be forced to undertake the additional costs and burdens of having to take more time off of work,” said ACLU staff attorney Julie Kaye earlier this year.

The law was on hold until February of this year when an appeals court reinstated it. Now the state’s Supreme Court has put the law on hold again.

Planned Parenthood of Florida says the law has always been unnecessary. They say the uncertainty has put clinics and patients in limbo.

“From the beginning when the bill received an injunction and then got overwritten, patients were coming in for scheduled appointments to be told you now have to come back tomorrow for the 24 hour mandatory delay from the state, on Friday when the Supreme Court ruled its no longer in effect, patients were in health centers across the state receiving treatment and then did not have to come back,” said Missy Wesolowski with the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates.

State lawmakers who supported the legislation reacted with disappointment – including incoming House speaker Richard Corcoran who said the court “has allowed it’s personal political biases to grossly influence its constitutional role.”

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