Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody argued that she and Gov. Ron DeSantis are exempt from a state law prohibiting officials from using their authority to interfere with an election, and have a right to use their power to try and defeat Amendment 4.
Gov. Ron DeSantis' six-week abortion ban "leads to preventable suffering" and unnecessarily puts women's lives in danger, say health care professionals across the Sunshine State.
The state's 6-week abortion ban that went into effect in May endangers women with at-risk pregnancies and puts medical practitioners in an 'extremely' difficult position, a Florida doctor says.
These legislators have consistently voted to take away a woman's right to body autonomy. Some are quietly working to defeat the grassroots referendum that would overturn Gov. DeSantis' six-week abortion ban and enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution.
Trump spent much of Tuesday’s debate lying about his position on abortion, repeatedly spreading conspiracy theories about Democrats executing infants, and downplaying the very real consequences of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
The DeSantis administration's investigation of signatures that were previously deemed valid “is what state-authorized election interference looks like,” say pro-choice activists.
Advocates of the citizen-led initiative are calling out the Republican-led government's effort to attack Amendment 4 as yet another example of the state's attempts to mislead voters.
The 6-week abortion ban that went into effect in Florida in May has endangered women with at-risk pregnancies or health issues. And no one is more impacted than Latinas, pro-choice advocates say.
As reproductive rights advocates continue to rally to enshrine the right to abortion in Florida’s Constitution, anti-abortion groups are fighting the passage of the amendment in November.
Even as the Biden administration publicly warned hospitals to treat pregnant patients in emergencies, facilities continue to violate the federal law. The issue became a focus for the administration following reports of women being improperly treated in emergency rooms after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion more than two years ago.
