Biden campaign sees a campaign opening after Florida’s abortion ban goes into effect

President Joe Biden’s campaign sees an opening to win over voters in Florida after the state’s supreme court allowed for its abortion ban to go into effect but also allowed for a proposed constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights could be on the ballot.

On Monday, the court overturned three decades of precedent to uphold a ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which would likely allow for a more restrictive law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis that bans abortion at six weeks to take effect.

At the same time, the court wrote that a proposed constitutional amendment that would protect Floridians’ right to an abortion until the point of “viability” for a foetus could be on the ballot.

Mr Biden criticised the decision in a statement from the White House on Tuesday morning.

“These extreme laws take away women’s freedom to make their own health care decisions and threaten physicians with jail time simply for providing the medical care that they were trained to provide,” he said.

Vice President Kamala Harris – who has made defending abortion rights a staple of her vice presidency – also decried the decision from the court, putting the blame squarely on Florida’s most famous resident, former president Donald Trump.

“Donald Trump created this health care crisis, and he has no plans to stop now,” she said. Mr Trump has regularly bragged about the fact that he nominated three of the six conservative justices on the US Supreme Court who delivered the Dobbs v Jackson decision that overturned Roe v Wade.

Mr Trump’s campaign gave an evasive response to CNN.

“President Trump supports preserving life but has also made clear that he supports states' rights because he supports the voters' right to make decisions for