Ron DeSantis' direction, warned superintendents and school districts to hold off on putting any changes into practice.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he is trying to stop the weaponization of school book bans after he signed a new education bill into law on Tuesday.
Florida is responsible for 72% of the book banning incidents tracked nationwide between July and December of 2023, according ...
Now, DeSantis has signed HB 1285, which he said will limit the amount of book objections that can be made by people who don't have a child who is accessing school materials. Parents of children in the ...
Under Florida's "pay-to-stay" law, inmates are charged $50 for every day of their sentence—including time they never spent ...
Florida's 15-week ban upheld and newer ... from the first day of the pregnant woman's last menstrual period." In 30 days, the 6-week ban passed in 2023 will be triggered and go into effect.
effectively allowing Florida to ban the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy. The rulings encapsulated, in a single state on a single day, how the country has grappled with the abortion issue ...
Abortion laws will soon change in the state of Florida. The Florida Supreme Court upheld a 15-week abortion ban that was signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in April 2022 in a 6-to-1 vote ...
The Florida Supreme Court upheld the state’s right to ban abortion on Monday, with devastating consequences for the women of Florida, who will live under one of the most draconian abortion bans ...
In a separate but closely related ruling ... abortion care for Florida women, said that the law coupled with a 24-hour waiting period for abortion will be a “total ban” in practical terms.
Of the 16 states in the South, nine have banned abortion. Florida will join Georgia and South Carolina with a six-week ban. This leaves just three states in this US Census region – Delaware ...
Ron DeSantis signed the six-week ban into law ... were 4,950 more abortions provided in Florida from January to June 2023, compared to the same period in 2020. MORE: Illinois, Florida, California ...