{"id":46,"date":"2016-04-25T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanwomensservices.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2025-12-26T05:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T10:03:42","slug":"florida-supreme-court-blocks-measure-forcing-women-to-delay-health-care-to-make-abortion-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanwomensservices.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/florida-supreme-court-blocks-measure-forcing-women-to-delay-health-care-to-make-abortion-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Supreme Court Blocks Measure Forcing Women to Delay Health Care To Make Abortion Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got big news coming from the Sunshine State! The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reproductiverights.org\/press-room\/florida-supreme-court-blocks-measure-forcing-women-to-delay-health-care-make-additional-trips?s_src=16SOC0416&amp;s_subsrc=datasync&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_campaign=16SOC0416\">Florida Supreme Court<\/a>&nbsp;blocked a 2015 measure which&nbsp;would have forced a woman to wait at least 24 hours and make at least one additional medically unnecessary trip before she is able to receive safe legal abortion care.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reproductiverights\/?fref=photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-48\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.americanwomensservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ACLU-300x300.jpg?resize=307%2C307\" alt=\"Photo Courtesy of Center for Reproductive Rights's Facebook Page.\" width=\"307\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.americanwomensservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ACLU.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.americanwomensservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ACLU.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.americanwomensservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ACLU.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.americanwomensservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ACLU.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy of The&nbsp;Center for Reproductive Rights&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reproductiverights\/\">Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Center&nbsp;for&nbsp;Reproductive Rights, American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, and Richard Johnson of Tallahassee&nbsp;challenged&nbsp;this case&nbsp;in June 2015 on behalf of Bread and Roses Women\u2019s Health Center, a&nbsp; reproductive health care provider, and Medical Students for Choice, an organization dedicated to making reproductive health care including abortion. The measure was temporarily&nbsp;blocked&nbsp;by a state trial court in late June 2105&nbsp;but then an appellate court allowed the measure to take effect in February 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got big news coming from the Sunshine State! The Florida Supreme Court&nbsp;blocked a 2015 measure which&nbsp;would have forced a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[2,4,6,9],"tags":[12,15,11,14,13],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7told-K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanwomensservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanwomensservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanwomensservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanwomensservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanwomensservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanwomensservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanwomensservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanwomensservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanwomensservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanwomensservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}