PUNTA GORDA, Fla.–Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality bill, HB-5, into law on April 14, banning most abortions after 15 weeks.
Exceptions to the law, which goes into effect July 1, would be to save a mother’s life, or if the fetus has a fatal abnormality.
“We are here to defend those who cannot defend themselves,” DeSantis said at the signing in Nacion de Fe Church in Kissimmee, surrounded by Republican lawmakers and other pro-life supporters. “We are here today to protect life.”
HB-5 gives the state one of the most “restrictive abortion measures” currently in the nation as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule on a similar measure this summer that was approved in Mississippi, also banning nearly all pregnancies after 15 weeks.  People opposing legislation that restricts abortions fear the high court will overturn Roe v. Wade, which gave women the constitutional right to abortion in 1973.
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