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Florida restores state abortion ban beyond 15 weeks after temporary halt

People gather to protest the overturning of Roe v Wade at Esplanade Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
People gather to protest the overturning of Roe v Wade at Esplanade Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Photograph: Michael Laughlin/AP

After a judge in Florida temporarily halted a state law banning abortions beyond 15 weeks of pregnancy, a state appeal restored the ban on Tuesday.

Judge John C Cooper of an appellate court in Florida’s capital of Tallahassee ruled that the ban in question – enshrined in a bill that Republican lawmakers approved in April – violates privacy protections in the state constitution.

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