potential presidential campaign just ahead plus what we re learning about donald trump s deposition yesterday in new york after spending eight hours at the attorney general s office. and we ll have the latest on the arrest of the young air national guardsman suspected of leaking classified documents all right, good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 14th. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire we begin in florida where ahead of a likely presidential run governor ron desantis signed a six-week abortion ban into law yesterday, a move that underscores just how controversial the move is. the typically boisterous desantis announced the decision with little fanfare last night, putting out this tweet just after 11:00, hours after the ban was approved by the gop controlled state legislature just two out of the 28 republicans in the florida senate voted against the bill, which makes exceptions for pregnancies involving rape or incest up until 15 weeks thosexes
doctors who say that the pill s existence is harming them because they ve had to treat people who need follow up care after taking the pills, they re saying these people don t have standing to bring the case and that giving them standing to bring the case invites all kinds of future challenges to all kinds of fda approved drugs. so they re really making this sort of slippery slope argument that if this case is allowed to go forward you ll have people around the country who will run to the nearest judge who they think could be friendly to their case and they could challenge vaccine approvals, they could challenge birth control approvals, all kinds of things so that s part of their case as well a fun future we have in store potentially. let s switch to florida quickly here governor ron desantis he signed a six-week abortion ban into law yesterday in his state you ve written about this. i think your latest piece was called desantis could be walking into a general election trap on aborti