Florida Supreme Court Approves a Six-Week BanAnd Lets an Abortion Rights Ballot Measure Move Forward Mother Jones [Video]

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Florida’s Supreme Court issued a pair of major rulings today on abortion that will both further restrict access in the short-term and allow voters to decide whether or not to expand abortion rights this November. 

One of the court’s rulings will allow a six-week abortion ban—signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis last April—to take effect, according to the Associated Press. 

And in the other ruling, the court decided that Floridians could vote on a ballot measure to expand abortion rights in the elections this November. Voters will weigh a constitutional amendment that would guarantee a right to abortion in the state prior to the point of so-called fetal viability, which is generally understood to be around 24 weeks’ gestation. 

The dueling rulings essentially make Florida a microcosm of our fraught national abortion politics, defined by anti-abortion Republicans …