KISSIMMEE, FL – Today, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 5, known as the “Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality” bill into law, a measure which protects unborn child from abortion after 15 weeks of gestation. This legislation is slated to go into effect July 1.
The legislation allows for abortions past 15 weeks only in situations involving a “fatal fetal abnormality” and makes no exceptions for rape or incest. The law limits the time an abortion is legal by nine weeks, as abortions were previously banned in Florida past 24 weeks.
