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Florida · 2025 Regular Session
H0145Pregnant Women in Custody
Direction
Abortionpersonhood ivfAI label
↓Restricts abortion accessmodel confidence 60%
The bill requires courts, when deciding on a stay of incarceration for a pregnant woman, to consider whether staying incarceration is consistent with 'protecting the life, health, and safety of the unborn child and his or her life during the first 12 weeks after birth,' which treats the fetus as an
(f) Whether staying the incarceration is consistent with protecting the life, health, and safety of the unborn child and his or her life during the first 12 weeks after birth.
✓ Quote verified word for word in the bill text
AbortionotherAI label
=No change to abortion accessmodel confidence 80%
The bill creates a discretionary stay of up to 12 weeks post-birth for pregnant women sentenced to incarceration (with conditions and reporting on pregnancy outcomes), offers postpartum assessments upon request, and requires pregnancy testing upon request for female arrestees held over 72 hours, all
authorizing a sentencing court to stay the beginning of the period of incarceration for up to a certain amount of time for a pregnant woman convicted of any offense
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill substantively addresses abortion via its repeated references to the 'unborn child' and requirement that courts weigh protection of the unborn child's life when deciding on stays of incarceration for pregnant defendants; this provision leans toward recognizing fetal interests and thus restricts abortion access on the personhood axis. The remainder of the bill (pregnancy testing on request, discretionary stays of sentence with conditions, postpartum care offers, and data reporting on pregnancies in custody) is maternal-health and criminal-justice policy that does not change legal access
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