Republicans Account for About 150,000 Signatures in Support of Florida's Abortion Ballot Measure

[RandySF]

Back in May, Florida abortion rights advocates began collecting signatures to get a measure on the November 2024 ballot that would enshrine abortion rights in their state. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, several states have put abortion rights on the ballot, and from Kansas in August 2022 to Ohio just last month, abortion rights have won handily.

Florida abortion rights advocates believe their state is next. As of this week, the Florida Division of Elections reports that it’s validated 687,699 of the 891,523 signatures needed by February 1 to get the measure on the ballot. Floridians Protecting Freedom says that it’s submitted over 1.3 million signatures total—and more than 150,000 of those signatures come from registered Republican voters.

“We’re having active conversations with voters from every political party, including Republicans; many of them are eager to sign our petition as soon as they hear what it’s about,” Floridians Protecting Freedom campaign director Lauren Brenzel told Jezebel in a statement. “What’s clear is people from across the political spectrum don’t want the government making decisions for them and their doctors.”

Floridians Protecting Freedom’s proposed measure states, “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 healthcare provider.” Currently, abortion is banned in Florida at 15 weeks, pending a court ruling on a six-week ban that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed earlier this year. Speaking to NBC, Republican voters—including a former state representative who campaigned for former Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush—criticized Florida’s abortion laws for infringing on privacy rights and not listening to voters. Curiously, one Republican voter who supports the ballot measure told NBC she voted for DeSantis in 2022, at which point DeSantis had already signed a 15-week abortion ban into law and made his anti-abortion extremism clear.


https://jezebel.com/republicans-account-for-about-150-000-signatures-in-sup-1851099981

[Roy Rolling]

1. Legality

Abortions have existed since the dawn of civilization and maybe before. That is the evidence, sans morality or modern medical science considerations.

The only question is, who gets to decide? The government or the pregnant woman?

The party of “less government” has a hypocrisy problem here that’s impossible to logically resolve. So, not even hypocrisy and truth is the problem as much as immoral grandstanders seeking attention for their faux religiosity.

Kindly STFU if it isn’t your baby, STFU if you aren’t the woman’s doctor, and certainly STFU if you’re a pundit on FoxNews. This isn’t your decision.