Abortion providers and abortion rights advocates in Florida have filed a lawsuit in state court challenging the state’s ban on abortions at 15 weeks of pregnancy, arguing that the law – which threatens to jail doctors and makes no exceptions for rape or incest – violates the state constitution’s privacy protections.
The state constitutional challenge comes as Americans wait for a decision from the US Supreme Court in a case involving a similar Mississippi law following a leaked draft opinion to overturn abortion protections from Roe v Wade.
