Ex-chief justice: Florida’s broad constitutional right to privacy should block abortion ban

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Abortion rights advocates rally in front of the Florida Supreme Court in May. Photo: Regan McCarthy, WFSU News

By Noreen Marcus, FloridaBulldog.org

As the Florida Supreme Court waits for draconian abortion restrictions to reach its docket, lawyers are road-testing their arguments for and against the deeply divisive law.

The law’s survival depends on the elephant in the courtroom, Florida’s freestanding right to privacy. Voters amended the state Constitution to add this right in 1980.

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