Abortion in Florida
Measured against: legal access to abortion.
40 bills · Abortion in every state · All Florida topics
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Instruction on Reproductive Health
AI summary Shifts approval of reproductive health teaching materials from the state Department of Education to local district school boards, which may lead to more variation in what content is permitted in classrooms.
Mixed abortion accessotherStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Education Pre-K - 12 -
Civil Remedies Pertaining to Abortions
AI summary Creates a civil cause of action for family members against anyone who violates the existing 15-week abortion ban in s. 390.0111(2), allowing suits even if the abortion occurs out of state or the woman consented, so less legal access to abortion.
Restricts abortion accessbans gestational limits, exceptions, travel interstate shield, otherStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Health Policy -
Reproductive Freedom
AI summary Establishes a fundamental right to abortion with no gestational limits or other restrictions, supersedes chapter 390, and repeals related restrictive statutes, so more legal access to abortion at any stage.
bans gestational limits, travel interstate shield, provider clinic regulation, funding insurance, personhood ivf, otherStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Health Policy -
Education
AI summary Requires instruction on human embryologic and fetal development including fertilization, stages of development from conception to birth, and high-definition ultrasound of fetal movement and organ development, so more recognition of the unborn as developing humans in required K-12 curriculum.
Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivfStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Education Pre-K - 12 -
Informed Consent for Assisted Reproductive Technology
AI summary Mandates that selective reduction (defined as an abortion) in IVF contexts must occur before 6 weeks gestation unless an exception under s. 390.0111(1) applies, reinforcing the existing 6-week limit on such procedures.
Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, bans gestational limits, otherNo change to abortion accessexceptionsStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Health Policy
All Abortion bills in Florida
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Instruction on Reproductive Health
AI summary Shifts approval of reproductive health teaching materials from the state Department of Education to local district school boards, which may lead to more variation in what content is permitted in classrooms.
Mixed abortion accessotherStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Education Pre-K - 12 -
Civil Remedies Pertaining to Abortions
AI summary Creates a civil cause of action for family members against anyone who violates the existing 15-week abortion ban in s. 390.0111(2), allowing suits even if the abortion occurs out of state or the woman consented, so less legal access to abortion.
Restricts abortion accessbans gestational limits, exceptions, travel interstate shield, otherStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Health Policy -
Reproductive Freedom
AI summary Establishes a fundamental right to abortion with no gestational limits or other restrictions, supersedes chapter 390, and repeals related restrictive statutes, so more legal access to abortion at any stage.
bans gestational limits, travel interstate shield, provider clinic regulation, funding insurance, personhood ivf, otherStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Health Policy -
Education
AI summary Requires instruction on human embryologic and fetal development including fertilization, stages of development from conception to birth, and high-definition ultrasound of fetal movement and organ development, so more recognition of the unborn as developing humans in required K-12 curriculum.
Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivfStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Education Pre-K - 12 -
Informed Consent for Assisted Reproductive Technology
AI summary Mandates that selective reduction (defined as an abortion) in IVF contexts must occur before 6 weeks gestation unless an exception under s. 390.0111(1) applies, reinforcing the existing 6-week limit on such procedures.
Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, bans gestational limits, otherNo change to abortion accessexceptionsStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Health Policy -
Health Care Freedom Act
AI summary Extends the gestational limit for most abortions from 6 weeks to the third trimester (with exceptions only for life or serious physical risk), so less legal access to abortion after 6 weeks.
Restricts abortion accessbans gestational limits, exceptionsmedication abortion, travel interstate shieldStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Health Policy -
Immigration, Law Enforcement, and State-issued Identification
AI summary Repeals statutes prohibiting sanctuary policies, repeals duties relating to immigration detainees, authorizes declining to comply with federal immigration detainers under certain circumstances, and prohibits local law enforcement from engaging in or cooperating with immigration enforcement within a
No change to abortion accessotherStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Commerce and Tourism -
Pregnancy Support and Wellness Services
AI summary Repeals the statute that created and funded pregnancy support and wellness services, which provided alternatives to abortion, so less state support for pregnancy continuation.
Restricts abortion accessfunding insurance, otherStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Health Policy -
Pregnant Women In Custody
AI summary The bill creates requirements for pregnancy testing of female arrestees upon request, postpartum assessments and services for women whose sentences are stayed, and data collection/reporting on pregnancy outcomes including miscarriages and stillbirths for incarcerated women.
Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivfNo change to abortion accessotherStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Criminal Justice -
Parental Rights
AI summary Prohibits classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in grades K-8 (with limited exceptions) and requires it to be age-appropriate in grades 9-12, so less discussion and recognition of gender identity in schools.
Restricts abortion accessbans gestational limits, otherStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Education Pre-K - 12 -
Civil Liability for the Wrongful Death of an Unborn Child
AI summary Expands the definition of 'unborn child' to any stage of development carried in the womb and allows parents to bring wrongful death actions and recover damages for the death of an unborn child, increasing legal recognition of the unborn as a person for civil liability purposes.
Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivfStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Rules -
Pregnancy Support and Wellness Services
AI summary Repeals the statute that created and funded the pregnancy support and wellness services program, eliminating state funding for pregnancy-related support services.
Restricts abortion accessfunding insuranceStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee -
Surrogacy and Assisted Reproduction
AI summary Amends preplanned adoption and surrogacy provisions to prohibit adoption or parental rights for disqualified persons (those failing level-2 background screening), to require background investigations of intended parents, to give the biological/gestational mother retained parental rights and support,
Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivfStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee -
Health Care Autonomy
AI summary Establishes a fundamental right to abortion with no gestational limits or other restrictions stated, and supersedes conflicting provisions of chapter 390 (Florida's abortion statute), so more legal access to abortion at any stage.
bans gestational limits, travel interstate shield, provider clinic regulation, funding insurance, personhood ivfStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee -
Informed Consent for Assisted Reproductive Technology
AI summary The bill defines 'selective reduction' as an abortion, requires specific informed-consent disclosures about it (including that it 'entails intentionally ending the life of one or more fetuses'), ties it to Florida's 6-week abortion limit with exceptions, and requires patient elections on the topic,,
Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, bans gestational limits, otherNo change to abortion accessexceptionsStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee -
Health Care
AI summary Extends the gestational limit for most abortions from 6 weeks to the third trimester (with exceptions), so more legal access to abortion after 6 weeks but before third trimester.
bans gestational limits, exceptions, medication abortion, travel interstate shieldStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee -
Civil Remedies Pertaining to Abortions
AI summary Creates a civil cause of action for family members against anyone who violates Florida's abortion statute (s. 390.0111(2)) even if the violation originates in another jurisdiction, and bars enforcement of out-of-state 'clawback' judgments against those who sue under this law, so more legal barriers,
Restricts abortion accesstravel interstate shield, otherStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee -
Reproductive Health and Instructional Materials
AI summary Requires annual public approval of materials used to teach reproductive health, adding a procedural requirement for schools that could limit or delay use of certain instructional content on the topic.
Restricts abortion accessprovider clinic regulation, otherStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Education Administration Subcommittee -
Civil Liability for the Wrongful Death of an Unborn Child
AI summary Expands the definition of 'survivors' in wrongful death law to include parents of an unborn child and defines 'unborn child' by cross-reference to the criminal code, allowing parents to recover damages for the death of an unborn child while exempting the mother and compliant health care providers (e
Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivfStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Rules -
Pregnant Women in Custody
AI summary The bill creates a discretionary stay of up to 12 weeks post-birth for pregnant women sentenced to incarceration, allowing them to avoid immediate custody while pregnant or with a newborn, which increases practical access to continuing a pregnancy without the immediate burdens of incarceration.
Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivfotherStage: ✕ Failed Mar 13: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee -
OGSR/Parental Consent Requirements Before Terminating a Pregnancy
AI summary Repeals the scheduled sunset of a public records exemption for information identifying minors seeking judicial waiver of parental consent for abortion, so the exemption continues indefinitely and less such information is publicly available.
No change to abortion accessother, exceptionsStage: Law Jul 3, 2025: Chapter No. 2025-209 -
Reproductive Health Rights
AI summary Creates a new part of the civil-rights chapter declaring a broad fundamental right to reproductive health care (including abortion) and preempts stricter local regulation, expanding statutory protections for abortion access.
ballot constitutional, otherStage: ✕ Failed Jun 16, 2025: Died in Judiciary -
Civil Liability for the Wrongful Death of an Unborn Child
AI summary Expands the definition of 'person' for wrongful death liability to include an 'unborn child' at any stage of development carried in the womb, and allows parents to recover damages for its death, which recognizes fetal personhood and could affect IVF or related practices.
Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivfStage: ✕ Failed Jun 16, 2025: Died in Rules -
Pregnancy Support and Wellness Services
AI summary Requires the pregnancy support network to subcontract only with providers that exclusively promote and support childbirth, and to spend at least 85% of funds on such services, directing public funds away from abortion providers.
Restricts abortion accessfunding insuranceStage: ✕ Failed Jun 16, 2025: Died in Health Policy -
Health Care Freedom Act
AI summary Changes the prohibition from after 6 weeks to only in the third trimester (with exceptions), so more abortions are legally allowed earlier in pregnancy.
bans gestational limits, medication abortion, travel interstate shieldRestricts abortion accessexceptionsStage: ✕ Failed Jun 16, 2025: Died in Health Policy -
Termination of Pregnancies
AI summary Changes the viability standard from a fixed 6-week gestational limit to a medical determination of sustainability outside the womb, which in practice allows abortions later than 6 weeks in many cases while still prohibiting them after viability.
bans gestational limitsRestricts abortion accessexceptionsStage: ✕ Failed Jun 16, 2025: Died in Health Policy -
Exceptions to the Limitation on Termination of Pregnancies
AI summary Broadens the life-and-health exception by requiring only one physician's determination instead of two, removing 'irreversible' and 'other than a psychological condition' qualifiers, and changing 'imminently' to 'shortly' for fatal fetal abnormalities, so more abortions are permitted under the 6-week
exceptionsRestricts abortion accessbans gestational limitsStage: ✕ Failed Jun 16, 2025: Died in Health Policy -
Pregnant Women in Custody
AI summary The bill creates a discretionary stay of up to 12 weeks post-birth for pregnant women sentenced to incarceration (with conditions and reporting), plus pregnancy testing on request for female arrestees and postpartum assessments, with no direct change to abortion access.
Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivfNo change to abortion accessotherStage: ✕ Failed Jun 16, 2025: Died in Criminal Justice -
Boating Safety
AI summary Expands the definition of vessel homicide to include the killing of an unborn child by injury to the mother from reckless vessel operation, and defines 'unborn child' by cross-reference to the existing personhood statute, so more legal recognition of the unborn in criminal law.
Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivfStage: ✕ Failed Jun 16, 2025: Died in Criminal Justice, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/HB 289 (Ch. 2025-197) -
Pregnancy Support and Wellness Services
AI summary Repeals the statute that created and funded the pregnancy support and wellness services program, which provided grants to organizations offering pregnancy-related support services as an alternative to abortion, so less state funding for such services.
Restricts abortion accessfunding insurance, otherStage: ✕ Failed Jun 16, 2025: Died in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee -
Exceptions to the Limitation on Termination of Pregnancies
AI summary Changes the life-and-health exception from requiring certification by two physicians to one physician, and removes the third-trimester limit on the fatal-fetal-abnormality exception, so more abortions after six weeks become legally available under the exceptions.
exceptions, bans gestational limitsStage: ✕ Failed Jun 16, 2025: Died in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee -
Civil Liability for the Wrongful Death of an Unborn Child
AI summary Expands the definition of 'person' for wrongful death civil liability to include an unborn child at any stage of development carried in the womb, allowing parents to sue third parties for damages including mental pain and suffering, which treats the unborn as having legal personhood in tort claims.
personhood ivfStage: ✕ Failed Jun 16, 2025: Died in Rules -
Reproductive Health Care
AI summary Establishes a fundamental right to obtain an abortion and prohibits local governments from regulating reproductive freedom more restrictively than the state law, which would protect access to abortion from additional local limits.
other, travel interstate shieldNo change to abortion accessfunding insuranceStage: ✕ Failed Jun 16, 2025: Died in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee -
Termination of Pregnancies
AI summary Changes the viability standard to a 6-week gestational limit (with exceptions), so less legal access to abortion after 6 weeks.
Restricts abortion accessbans gestational limits, exceptionsStage: ✕ Failed Jun 16, 2025: Died in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee -
Health Care
AI summary Extends the gestational limit for most abortions from 6 weeks to the third trimester (with exceptions), so greater legal access to abortion.
bans gestational limits, exceptions, medication abortion, travel interstate shieldStage: ✕ Failed Jun 16, 2025: Died in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee -
Pregnant Women in Custody
AI summary 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
Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivfNo change to abortion accessotherStage: ✕ Failed Jun 16, 2025: Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee -
Pregnancy Support and Wellness Services
AI summary Requires the Florida Pregnancy Care Network to subcontract only with providers that exclusively promote and support childbirth, and mandates that informational materials be medically accurate, which in practice channels state pregnancy support funding exclusively to anti-abortion providers and away
Restricts abortion accessother, funding insuranceStage: ✕ Failed Jun 16, 2025: Died in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee -
OGSR/Parental Consent Requirements Before Terminating a Pregnancy
AI summary Reenacts and continues the public records exemption for information identifying minors seeking judicial waiver of parental consent for abortion, so the exemption remains in force rather than expiring.
No change to abortion accessother, exceptionsStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 29, 2025: Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 7018 (Ch. 2025-209) -
Physician Assistant and Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Services
AI summary Expands the list of non-physician practitioners (including certain advanced practice registered nurses) who may file, certify, and correct certificates of fetal death, so more non-physician providers can perform these administrative tasks related to fetal deaths.
No change to abortion accessotherStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 23, 2025: Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 647 (Ch. 2025-50) -
Termination of Pregnancies
AI summary Changes the viability rule to a 6-week gestational limit with exceptions, so less legal access to abortion after 6 weeks.
Restricts abortion accessbans gestational limitsMixed abortion accessexceptionsStage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 19, 2025: Withdrawn prior to introduction
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