FL: Abortion rights amendment closer to getting on the 2024 ballot, says group

[RandySF]

A group that is trying to place a state constitutional amendment to protect the right to an abortion on the 2024 ballot says it has enough signatures to get a review from the Florida Supreme Court.

Floridians Protecting Freedom says it has garnered 600,000 petition signatures statewide. That's two-thirds of the roughly 900,000 signatures needed to place the amendment on the 2024 ballot.

Dawnyell Singleton, with Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida, said she's optimistic the electorate will have the opportunity to vote on the amendment.

"I do believe that we will be successful," Singleton said. "We have a huge amount of grassroots momentum that's behind us. People are excited, and at the end of the day Floridians are sick of the government interfering in our health care decisions."

Earlier this year, state lawmakers approved a ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. A year earlier, the Legislature passed a 15-week limit on most abortions.



https://www.wlrn.org/law-justice/2023-09-08/abortion-rights-amendment-closer-to-getting-on-the-2024-ballot-says-group

[Sedona]

1. FAFO

That is all

[Chainfire]

2. Even if it passes, the ballots will not have cooled before the Republican junta will water it down

to the point of meaninglessness. We have seen that before in Florida politics.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

3. Yep - these ballot measures just happen to disappear.

A lot of things that people have voted for just die.