Florida Representative Looking to Follow Texas’s Lead, Files “Heartbeat” Abortion Bill

Florida Representative Webster Barnaby (R) has filed the “Florida Heartbeat Act,” authorities that would prohibit abortions erstwhile a fetal heartbeat is detected, lone allowing them to beryllium performed if the mother’s beingness is successful danger.

The measure would empower citizens to writer anyone who induces oregon performs an termination against the bill’s guidelines.

#BREAKING– HB 167 filed successful Florida, would prohibition abortions if a fetal bosom complaint is detected. Provides an objection if the mother’s beingness is astatine risk. #wftv pic.twitter.com/s8lo62826U

— Karla Ray (@KRayWFTV) September 22, 2021

The Florida measurement fundamentally mirrors a Texas instrumentality that went into effect aft the Supreme Court voted 5-4 not to artifact its implementation, saying termination providers had not met the load required for a enactment of the law.

It prohibits virtually each abortions aft a heartbeat is detected, which is typically aft six weeks of gestation and empowers citizens to record lawsuits against termination providers suspected of violating the caller policy.

The law, referred to arsenic a “fetal heartbeat bill,” would besides let citizens to record lawsuits against termination providers suspected of violating the caller policy.