{"id":300917,"date":"2023-11-01T12:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T17:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=300917"},"modified":"2023-10-31T16:33:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T21:33:31","slug":"florida-supreme-court-asked-reject-abortion-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/florida-supreme-court-asked-reject-abortion-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Supreme Court asked to reject deceptive and misleading abortion amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p style=\"text-align: left;\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/lc.org\/newsroom\/details\/103123-fl-supreme-court-asked-to-reject-deceptive-and-misleading-abortion-amendment\">Liberty Counsel<\/a>) [On Tuesday], Liberty Counsel <a href=\"https:\/\/lc.org\/PDFs\/Attachments2PRsLAs\/2023\/103123BriefFLVotersAgainstExtremism(as%20filed).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed<\/a>\u00a0a brief on behalf of Florida Voters Against Extremism to oppose a proposed amendment that would codify unrestricted abortion in the Florida Constitution. Liberty Counsel\u2019s brief argues that the Florida Supreme Court should prohibit this initiative on the ballot because it fails to comply with the law regarding citizen voter initiatives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The proposed amendment, \u201cAmendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion,\u201d would create a new section in the Florida Constitution \u201climiting government interference with abortion.\u201d However, this initiative has serious deficiencies and falls short of the requirements for ballot placement under Florida law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The full text of the accompanying ballot summary states: \u201cNo law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient\u2019s health, as determined by the patient\u2019s healthcare provider. This amendment does not change the Legislature\u2019s constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The proposed amendment is sponsored by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridiansprotectingfreedom.com\/about\/\">Floridians Protecting Freedom, Inc<\/a>., a political committee supported by the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, the American Civil Liberties Union, and other groups that support the termination of preborn humans through unrestricted abortion on demand. Even the name, Floridians Protecting Freedom, is deceptive when their objective is to \u201cprotect Floridians\u2019 access to abortion as reproductive health care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S-lQOooYAs8?si=P2oOkxV9TVCqFjC3\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The proposed amendment hides from voters that the sponsors\u2019 true purpose is to codify unrestricted abortion in Florida\u2019s Constitution and allow abortions for virtually any reason, at any stage of the pregnancy. The amendment\u2019s ballot title and summary are misleading and fail to provide fair notice to voters of the measure\u2019s true chief purpose and effect. The proposed amendment would prevent the State from regulating all pre-viability abortions and all abortions that a vague and undefined \u201chealthcare provider\u201d may deem \u201cnecessary\u201d to protect the woman\u2019s \u201chealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The amendment also leaves the terms \u201cnecessary\u201d or \u201chealth\u201d purposefully undefined and vague, concealing that the true purpose is to confuse Florida voters and create an unrestricted right to abortion at all stages of pregnancy up to birth. For example, if adopted, the proposed amendment would authorize, as a matter of state law, activities that would constitute violations of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. This conflict alone with the federal law disqualifies the proposed amendment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The proposed amendment also violates the Florida Constitution\u2019s single-subject requirement by addressing multiple subjects, including pre-viability abortions and protection of women\u2019s health, in the same proposal. Those are distinct issues that cannot permissibly be put into a single ballot initiative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, \u201cThis deceptive proposed amendment must not be permitted on the ballot. The amendment and the sponsor\u2019s statements and summary are deceptive. If passed, this abortion amendment would ban all reasonable regulation of abortion up to birth. This amendment would also impermissibly conflict with the federal ban on the brutal Partial Birth Abortion procedure. These sponsors want to fool the voters into changing the Florida Constitution to provide unrestricted access to abortion for any reason, even up to birth. This deceptive amendment must be rejected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: This press release was originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/lc.org\/newsroom\/details\/103123-fl-supreme-court-asked-to-reject-deceptive-and-misleading-abortion-amendment\">Liberty Counsel<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/stop-planned-parenthood\/?utm_campaign=sex_ed_petition&amp;utm_medium=LAN&amp;utm_source=website\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-295788\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur-700x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur-700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur-300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur-768x198.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur-500x129.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Liberty Counsel) [On Tuesday], Liberty Counsel filed\u00a0a brief on behalf of Florida Voters Against Extremism to oppose a proposed amendment that would codify unrestricted abortion in the Florida Constitution. Liberty Counsel\u2019s brief argues that the Florida Supreme Court should prohibit this initiative on the ballot because it fails to comply with the law regarding citizen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":686,"featured_media":218229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7077],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Florida Supreme Court asked to reject deceptive and misleading abortion amendment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The proposed amendment hides that it will codify unrestricted abortion in Florida\u2019s Constitution, allowing abortion for any reason anytime.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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