{"id":1530647,"date":"2022-06-28T14:30:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530647"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:30:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:30:27","slug":"florida-vows-to-enhance-pro-life-protections-after-supreme-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-vows-to-enhance-pro-life-protections-after-supreme-court-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Vows to Enhance Pro-Life Protections After Supreme Court Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-vows-to-enhance-pro-life-protections-after-supreme-court-ruling%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530647&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-florida\">Florida<\/a> Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Friday the state would enhance its pro-life protections, while applauding the high court\u2019s overturn of Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy properly interpreting the Constitution, the prayers of millions have been answered,\u201d DeSantis said in a June 24 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/status\/1540378975251341315\">Twitter post<\/a> in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision to undo Roe v. Wade, following a leaked draft majority opinion in May. The landmark 1973 ruling decriminalized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-abortion\">abortion<\/a> nationwide for the past 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorida will continue to defend its recently enacted pro-life reforms against state court challenges, will work to expand pro-life protections, and will stand for life by promoting adoption, foster care, and child welfare,\u201d the statement continues, providing no further details on how the state will act in response.<\/p>\n<p>A new Florida abortion law was scheduled to take effect on July 1 in a bid to protect fetal rights, with no exceptions for rape, incest, or human trafficking. DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_app\/desantis-signs-reducing-fetal-and-infant-mortality-bill_4404790.html\">signed House Bill 5<\/a>, the Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality Act, into law in mid-April, banning most abortions after 15 weeks unless such procedures are to save a mother\u2019s life or out of medical necessity, or the fetus has a fatal abnormality.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and pro-abortion activists have fired back at the ruling, seeing it as an attack on reproductive rights. A Boynton Beach congregation and affiliates of Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers have filed lawsuits to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_app\/synagogue-files-suit-challenging-floridas-new-abortion-law_4545960.html\">challenge<\/a>\u00a0Florida\u2019s new law.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s office said in a statement that it is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/synagogue-lawsuit-claims-florida-abortion-ban-violates-religious-freedom_4534009.html\">confident<\/a> that this law will ultimately withstand all legal challenges.\u201d Florida House Speaker Chris Sprowls said on Twitter that such attempts are an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisSprowls\/status\/1540344519648051200\">additional hurdle<\/a>\u201d for the 15-week ban.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the state\u2019s Senate President Wilton Simpson praised the reversal of Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an adopted child myself, I am grateful for this decision. 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Wade. \u201cBy properly interpreting the Constitution, the prayers of millions have been answered,\u201d DeSantis said in a June 24 Twitter post in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision to undo [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}