From New York, this is Democracy Now.

What we're witnessing is really the opening salvo in a campaign by anti-abortion activists

to use the conservative capture of the courts to ban abortion, not just in red states, but

nationwide.

The U.S. Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to block an appeal's court ruling

limiting access to methapristo.

We'll look at the legal battle over the abortion pill as well as Florida's new six-week

abortion ban.

Then, to present Biden's trip to Ireland marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement

that ended three decades of fighting in Northern Ireland.

Finally, in New Jersey, it's day five of the first faculty strike in Rutgers University's

257-year history.

And we'll speak to a Cuban journalist as Washington and Havanaugh will talk's focused on migration.

Welcome to Democracy Now.

Florida's Republican Governor Ronda Santa signed a six-week abortion ban into law Thursday.

The ban will take effect of Florida's current 15-week ban as appelled at the conservative

controlled state Supreme Court where it's being challenged.

The six-week ban would make exceptions for rape, insist, and human trafficking, and such

cases survivors could get an abortion up to 15 weeks into pregnancy, but only if they're

able to provide official documentation such as a police reporter medical records.

Since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, many pregnant people in the

south have traveled to Florida for abortions.

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