In Florida clinic, women are confused, afraid after ruling upholds six-week abortion ban
At a Miami Planned Parenthood Clinic, patients and a doctor spoke about the confusion and terror that's set in after the state's Supreme Court upheld Florida's six-week abortion ban, which takes effect May 1.
MIAMI — It was a busy day, as usual, at the Planned Parenthood clinic tucked away in the Golden Glades area of Miami two days after Florida’s Supreme Court upheld a law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. What made the day unusual was many women were alarmed and “freaking out” over the ban.
“I had a patient an hour ago, who was in her eighth or ninth week of pregnancy, concerned that we were going to turn her away,” said Dr. Chelsea Daniels, a physician with Planned Parenthood. “There is a lot of confusion and terror.”
Daniels has been shuttling between procedures and media interviews in her office since news of the ban, which takes effect May 1, broke Monday.
Florida was one of the last states in the Southeastern part of the country where abortion was still largely accessible — providing the service not just to Floridians, but also to those living in nearby states where abortion had already been limited or banned.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion access, over 9,300 people traveled to Florida from other states to get abortion care last year — more than double the number in 2020.
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