{"id":10651,"date":"2023-05-10T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10651"},"modified":"2023-05-10T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T14:00:33","slug":"the-astonishing-radicalism-of-floridas-new-ban-on-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10651","title":{"rendered":"The astonishing radicalism of Florida\u2019s new ban on abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that would restrict abortion at six weeks of pregnancy. The bill will not take effect until after a court challenge to the 15-week ban is resolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In practical terms, this is a total ban: Many people do not even know they\u2019re pregnant at six weeks. Even if they are aware, the Florida requirement to obtain an abortion \u2014 two in-person doctor visits with a 24-hour waiting period in between \u2014 is a challenging logistical burden at 15 weeks and would be nearly impossible at six.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/2023\/4\/5\/23668272\/florida-abortion-desantis-republicans-six-weeks-gop\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/2023\/4\/5\/23668272\/florida-abortion-desantis-republicans-six-weeks-gop<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that would restrict abortion at six weeks of pregnancy. The bill will not take effect until after a court challenge to the 15-week ban is resolved.<br \/>\nIn practical terms, this is a total ban: Many people do not even know they\u2019re pregnant at six weeks. Even if they are aware, the Florida requirement to obtain an abortion \u2014 two in-person doctor visits with a 24-hour waiting period in between \u2014 is a challenging logistical burden at 15 weeks and would be nearly impossible at six.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[521,471],"class_list":["post-10651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abortion","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10652,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651\/revisions\/10652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}