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In Florida, the abortion issue has for too long been decided based on extreme views held by members of the Legislature. At six weeks, most women don’t even know they are pregnant.
The initiative would have added the following text to Article I of the Florida Constitution: Except as provided in Article X, Section 22, no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability, or when necessary to protect the patient's health, as determined by the patient's health-care provider.
Florida's first abortion law was implemented in 1868, lasting until 1972; it stated: [8] [9] Abortion: Every person who shall administer to any woman pregnant with a quick child any medicine, drug or substance whatever, or shall use or employ any instrument or other means, with intent thereby to destroy such child, unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such mother ...
Claim: Amendment 4 would protect a woman’s decision to have an abortion This is true. Amendment 4 would end restrictions on abortions before a fetus could survive outside of the uterus.
This Nov. 5, Florida voters will have the power to guarantee abortion access across the state by voting ‘yes’ on Amendment 4. The health and safety of women and girls across the state of ...
Abortion-rights and anti-abortion activists voice their opinions outside the Florida Supreme Court after the Court heard arguments on the proposed abortion amendment Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024.
This week, the Supreme Court of Florida ruled to both allow the state’s six-week abortion ban to stand and to allow a state-wide vote in November to enshrine abortion as a right protected by the ...
Some of Florida’s justices, most of whom were appointed by DeSantis, have known anti-abortion views. Justice Charles Canady, a former anti-abortion lawmaker whose wife is a state lawmaker who ...