Gainesville Woman Care, LLC v. State of Florida

Supreme Court of Florida ____________ No. SC16-381 ____________ GAINESVILLE WOMAN CARE, LLC, et al., Petitioners, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, et al., Respondents. [February 16, 2017] PARIENTE, J. The issue in this case is whether the trial court properly applied strict scrutiny when reviewing the Mandatory Delay Law, which imposes an additional twenty-four hour waiting period on women seeking to terminate their pregnancies. See ch. 2015-118 § 1, Laws of Fla. (codified at § 390.0111(3), Fla. Stat. (2015)) (“Mandatory Delay Law”). The Mandatory Delay Law implicates the Florida Constitution’s express…