Florida is pulling out all stops to block voters from deciding on abortion (Opinion)

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Florida is pulling out all stops to block voters from deciding on abortion (Opinion)

The group working to ensure abortion access in Florida has nearly reached the number of signatures it needs under state law to put a proposed constitutional amendment on the 2024 ballot. As of last week, Floridians Protecting Freedom had almost 864,000 of the required 891,523 validated signatures.

This is important news. The voters of Florida must have the chance to speak on this issue, rather than allowing the Florida Legislature, which passed an extreme, six-week abortion ban in May, to force its decision on the rest of us.

The ballot measure is not a done deal yet. The state is trying to block voters from having their say. Attorney General Ashley Moody has filed a court challenge regarding the wording of the summary that would appear on the ballot.

Getting the signatures is a crucial step. The abortion-rights group has until Feb. 1 to submit all the signatures and meet other requirements, including that the signatures come from at last half of Florida’s congressional districts. The group has said it’s on track to submit 1.4 million signatures for validation by the state. That should be more than enough — almost half a million more than required — even allowing for some signatures to be tossed out as invalid.

It’s a milestone in the fight to let voters decide in a state where Republicans have mostly succeeded in locking down control of government. But it’s something else, too. The large number of signatures gathered, 1.4 million, is an indication of just how far the Florida Legislature has strayed from what many people in this state actually want — not that the Republican Legislature pays much heed to that anymore.

[SoFlaBro]

1. I hate the fuck out of the shitty MAGA cult in Florida. They have been side-fucking the people of FL for 25 years now.

[Lovie777]

2. It's the South and a few other states that are displacing Black voters............................

GQP, including the asswipe 6 justices in the US SC that doesn't want Blacks to vote.

[GreenWave]

3. As the ocean level continues to rise, I suspect

the Magats will be out on top of their houses denying it one day. Florida will be the first state to go almost fully under.

[msfiddlestix]

4. I always find it rather odd that racists to the core lawmakers would have a problem with abortion rights for WOC.

I get their general state of psychotic, fanatical and misogynistic attitudes regarding women's rights in with respect reproductive rights, something about power and oh my the idea of thwarting the second coming via an otherwise unwanted pregnancy.

But I'm pretty sure Christian Nationalists have no belief that Jesus could possibly be any color other than white.

And they give eff all about the born child having the right to clean water, clean air, healthy food, decent shelter, good education and guaranteed job to maintain a decent living., particularly for children of color. Oh, how about secure and freedom from gun humping lunatics?

So wtf is their logic? I wish a reporter or two would ask this question. It would be interesting to hear these racists lawmakers responses.