TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The legal battle over Florida’s new 15-week abortion ban won’t go on a fast track to the state Supreme Court, which has previously ruled that the constitution’s privacy provisions guarantee a right to abortion.
The 1st District Court of Appeal decided Thursday that it will consider the case rather than forwarding it immediately to the state’s highest court.
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The ban on abortions after 15 weeks took effect July 1.
The law was temporarily blocked by a lower court judge who declared it unconstitutional, but the state’s appeal put a hold on that original ruling.
For now, the 15-week abortion ban remains in effect in Florida.