Thursday, the Florida House voted overwhelmingly to ban abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy.
The final vote was 70 to 40, with most of the members being Republicans.
Republicans were against the Democrats because they only had 35 members.
Since most women don’t find out they are pregnant until after the sixth week, this rule makes it so that abortions are no longer legal.
Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has said that he plans to sign the bill. It had already been passed by the Senate of Florida.
Thursday morning, protesters broke into the Capitol and made a mess of the building.
As members of Congress got closer to the House floor, they could hear protesters yelling and throwing stickers and small pieces of paper at them.
Reports from the area said that the stickers told people how to get abortion pills by mail.
When DeSantis signs the bill into law, it will make Florida one of the states with the most strict rules about abortion in the country.
The state’s rule that abortions can’t happen after 15 weeks is now being challenged in court.
At the moment, no one knows when a ruling will be made.
In a statement made Thursday, Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, disagreed with the passage and called the bill “radical and dangerous.”
Jean-Pierre says that the ban goes against the views of the vast majority of people in Florida and the rest of the United States. He also says that it goes against basic freedoms.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) also criticized the ban on abortion in order to link DeSantis to Trump’s “MAGA base.”
“This ban will be one of the strictest in the country, and it’s the latest example of abortion extremism as Republican candidates for 2024 try to out-MAGA each other,” the DNC said in a statement. “It’s also a reminder to Americans that a Republican-led government would bring us closer to a nationwide ban on abortion.”
During the talk of the six-week ban, Democratic MPs knew they were up against a steep hill, so they proposed more than fifty changes to the bill.
But Republican House Speaker Paul Renner spent the whole day rushing through the amendment process. He only let each proposal be discussed for about a minute before calling for a voice vote, saying that the proposal had failed, and moving on to the next.
Some people in the audience shouted and hooted at him. “This is all just circus politics!” someone yelled.
Renner pushed back and reminded the crowd that they were invited and that he had the power to tell them to leave.
By lunchtime, the halls were empty because of problems.