Opponents sued and DeSantis defended the law, which was much more stringent, but then signed this year’s “Heartbeat Protection Act” hours after it passed and in the middle of a busy travel schedule. To prevent a serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function, which must be certified in writing by two physicians, or by one physician in the case of an emergency if a second physician is not available. It does allow exemptions if the pregnancy is a serious risk to the mother or if a fatal fetal abnormality is detected - with a major condition: The 15-week ban also has no exemptions for rape or incest. Before, Florida allowed abortions through the second trimester, making it one of the most lenient states in the Southeast. “We are here today to protect life,” DeSantis said April 14 of last year as he signed the bill at an evangelical church in Kissimmee. (The seventh, appointed before DeSantis, resigned last month.) He appointed four of the six current justices. The 15-week law - named “ Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality” - is the subject of an ongoing legal challenge, but DeSantis might not be sweating. The six-week ban is considered a major conservative policy victory, even though it’ll only go into effect if the state Supreme Court upholds the 15-week ban DeSantis signed last year, even before the U.S. That’s contrary to his usual bombastic style but his mind is also on his book tour, which some consider a shadow presidential campaign.

Last Thursday, between flying in from Ohio and out to New Hampshire, DeSantis held a closed-door private ceremony without fanfare to sign a bill to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. He got what he wanted, although it wasn’t what he said he wanted before his reelection in November. He did the same last year, but two controversial items he signed will not be the law of the land anymore.

(TND) - Florida governor and expected GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has been busy signing bills approved by his Republican supermajority in the legislature.

Courts phila gov traffic