(CNN) —- The Florida State Senate approved a bill on Thursday that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, allowing only exceptions involving “serious risk” to the pregnant person and fatal fetal abnormality, but no exceptions for rape or incest.
The GOP-sponsored bill passed the state House of Representatives last month and will go to Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who has previously signaled his support for lawmakers to restrict access to abortion.
Florida joins West Virginia and Arizona as conservative-led states advancing a bill banning 15-week abortions this session, while the US Supreme Court appears ready to uphold a similar Mississippi law that prohibits abortion after 15 weeks.
The fate of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, is also up for grabs, and anti-abortion activists are hopeful the court’s conservative majority will overturn it.
Florida law currently prohibits abortions in the third trimester. It allows exceptions if the procedure is necessary to save the pregnant woman’s life or to prevent a “serious risk of imminent substantial and irreversible physical deterioration” to a pregnant woman.
The bill passed by both chambers would keep those exemptions and add another: if the fetus has a fatal abnormality.
More than a dozen amendments proposed by Democrats, including one that would provide an exception for rape and incest, failed.
Senators voted along party lines 23-15 in favor of the bill, which, if signed into law by DeSantis, would take effect July 1.
Democrats who oppose the measure were quick to voice their opposition Thursday night, with party House members saying in a statement that it was “a direct attack on the people of Florida and our constitutional rights.”
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said on social media that the move would roll back a basic dignity for women.
“More worrying is rejecting exceptions for rape and incest, even for young girls. Abortion is a deeply personal decision, and to silence that decision is outrageous and wrong,” she said.
CNN’s Sean Federico-OMurchu, Veronica Stracqualursi and Steve Contorno contributed to this report.
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