Abortion

The rulings Monday reject Attorney General Ashley Moody’s arguments that both of the proposed questions should have been rejected.

The ruling by the Florida Supreme Court upheld the state's ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. It means a subsequently passed six-week ban can soon take effect.

While one amendment seeks to ensure abortion rights, the other would allow adults 21 or older to use recreational marijuana in the state.

Attorney General Ashley Moody's office and abortion opponents are urging justices to consider another part of the state Constitution that they say could apply to "unborn children."

Support for Republicans and former President Donald Trump has been building over the last eight years in majority-Hispanic Miami-Dade County and in Florida, but Democrats believe they have found a winning issue in supporting abortion access.

When Florida lawmakers went home after ending the 2024 legislative session Friday, they left behind hundreds of bills that did not pass.

Fetal personhood made headlines recently when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos are "extrauterine children." The ruling raised questions across the country about fetal personhood.

Louis Virelli, a Stetson University law professor, discusses the impact the controversial ruling in Alabama could have in Florida.

A Florida bill to allow people to file wrongful death lawsuits over the death of a fetus is being shelved because of the political fallout from an Alabama Supreme Court decision that frozen embryos are legally protected children.

The bill would have added the term “unborn child” to the state’s wrongful death statute, allowing parents to sue if a wrongful act causes the loss of a pregnancy.

The expansion of Catholic hospitals nationwide leaves patients at the mercy of the church’s religious directives, which are often at odds with accepted medical standards.

A House committee on Wednesday approved a controversial measure that would allow parents to file civil lawsuits seeking damages for the wrongful death of an "unborn child," with critics of the bill saying it is too broad and could shrink the number of doctors who deliver babies in Florida.