Fri Apr 14, 2023 – 4:55 pm EDT
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — Pro-life groups weighed in Friday on the passage and signing into law of Florida’s new “heartbeat bill,” which bans nearly all abortions in the state after a baby’s heartbeat can be detected.
While one grassroots group says the measure doesn’t “go far enough,” another has hailed it as a crucial victory and a major step beyond the state’s pre-Dobbs 15-week ban.
As LifeSiteNews previously reported, Florida’s Republican-led legislature on Thursday approved a heartbeat bill that would ban abortions at around six weeks gestation, a stage when most women don’t even know they’re pregnant.
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the measure into law Thursday night, hours after it cleared the state House. The legislation will make it illegal to deliberately kill an unborn baby after his heartbeat can be detected, which is usually about six weeks’ gestation. Heartbeat laws have been credited with sharply reducing the number of abortions committed in the states that enact them.
The measure is slated to take effect 30 days after the state Supreme Court hands down a favorable ruling in a current case that will determine whether
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