The Florida Board of Medicine recently fined an obstetrician and gynecologist $10,000 and issued a reprimand for violating a 2022 anti-abortion law requiring a 24-hour waiting period before performing abortions.

Florida’s 24-hour waiting period law, enacted in 2015, requires pregnant people to receive information about abortions from their doctor and then wait at least 24 hours before proceeding with the procedure. While Florida has contended that the law expanded upon existing informed-consent requirements, critics assert that mandatory waiting periods are medically unnecessary and interfere with pregnant people’s access to abortion.

“They are required for almost no other medical procedure, and they do not make abortion care safe,” reproductive health and rights organization the Guttmacher Institute has stated. “Instead, they aim to deter people from getting an abortion or to compel them to reconsider a decision that the vast majority are already certain of by the time they........

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