In a move that could produce a huge political battle and become a major issue in the 2022 elections, the president of the Florida Senate said Thursday the Legislature would consider enacting a Texas-state style law effectively banning most abortions.
The new Texas law bans abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy, a point at which many women don’t know they’re pregnant. It empowers anyone to sue anyone else who in any way provides any kind of help to a woman seeking an abortion after that point, even a ride-share driver who takes someone to have the procedure.
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Democratic strategist Andrew Dolberg, director of strategic initiatives with the firm MDW Communications, said the issue could mobilize his party’s voters.
“Politically speaking, it is a topic that Democrats will rally around,” he said. “Democrats are going to get riled up about the actual threat now that Roe v. Wade has effectively been nullified.”
