South Florida prosecutors aren’t saying if they’ll enforce state’s strict new abortion ban

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Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle with, center, Broward State Attorney Harold Pryor and Palm Beach State Attorney Dave Aronberg

By Noreen Marcus, FloridaBulldog.org

Going by the book, anyone who violates Florida’s new six-week abortion ban commits a felony and faces up to five years in prison or a $5,000 fine. A repeat, three-time offender is looking at 10 years in prison.

But criminal penalties aren’t central to the heated public debate about abortion that has fired up almost every politician from an outraged President Joe Biden to a beleaguered former president Donald Trump.

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