Pro choice advocates in Florida are marking the 51st anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling as they await a ruling from the Supreme Court of Florida on the constitutionality of the state's current 15-week abortion ban with limited exceptions.
If upheld, a six-week ban will trigger 30 days later.
Senator Lori Berman says Floridians lives are in danger pointing to Anya Cook. "She was 16 weeks pregnant when her water broke and because of the 15-week abortion ban, doctors wouldn't do anything." She delivered in a toilet, hemorrhaged and had to be hospitalized.
Next month the state's high court is set to review the wording of a constitutional question for November's ballot asking voters whether women should have access to abortions until fetal viability.
State Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book is confident it will get the green light. "We are taking back a woman's right to choose, because there is nobody that's going to fight for our rights but ourselves."
She argues abortion access is not a Democratic or Republican issue by pointing to polls which show about 80% of Floridians support a women's right to choose.