Republican lawmakers in both the House and Senate defeated amendments that would have made exceptions for rape, incest, human trafficking and mental health.
"For the first time in many years, you’re going to have a bill that I believe will be tolerated the U.S. Supreme Court," Simpson told reporters.
"After 15 weeks, that is a child. And so the argument is, should you kill a baby after 15 weeks because it was under certain circumstances?" Simpson said. Farmer, a father of two daughters, said it was simply wrong for a male-dominated legislative body to make a"decree" about a woman's body. "We will never know what it feels like," he said.
Advocates for a woman's right to an abortion fear the U.S. Supreme Court signaled it was willing to alter the legal landscape for abortion when it agreed to hear the so-called Abortion law scholar Mary Ziegler has told the USA TODAY Network-Florida Capital Bureau that the justices went looking for an opportunity to reopen Roe. There is no split in lower court decisions or conflict in state statutes for the justices to resolve in Dobbs, said Ziegler, a Florida State University law professor.
The bill galvanized opponents into a coalition that staged numerous rallies in Tallahassee and marched on the state Capitol three times in the past nine weeks.
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