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A South Florida congresswoman says women are suffering since the overturning of Roe v. Wade one year ago.
Democrat Lois Frankel was in West Palm Beach today with former state Supreme Court Justice Barbara Pariente. She criticized Florida's abortion laws.
"What we have is an attack on patients, an attack on doctors."
The ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy that was passed this year will not go into effect unless Florida's highest court rules in favor of state in a challenge to the 15-week limit on abortions.
Pariente is pushing a ballot initiative that would essentially reverse all abortion changes that happened since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision made on June 24, 2022.
"A constitutional amendment that would put back Roe into the Constitution."
Frankel, who chairs the House Democratic Women’s Caucus, was also with Democrat State Rep. Jervonte Edmonds, as well as a representative from Planned Parenthood and doctors who talked about the difficulties they say the 15-week abortion limit causes for them.
Signatures for the 'Floridians Protecting Freedom' initiative are being collected through December and supporters hope to have enough of them on a petition to send to the state's highest court next year.