Abortion
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Legal effort to defeat Amendment 4 is being bankrolled by mystery donor
As the November elections approach, anti-abortion advocates are working to defeat the citizen-led initiative that would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.
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Abortion rights advocate calls Florida’s six-week abortion ban ‘extraordinarily dangerous’
Extreme abortion bans lead to not only negative health care outcomes, “but also deaths amongst pregnant women,” says Geeta Minocha, an advocate for reproductive rights who is fighting to help pass Florida’s Amendment 4.
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Lawyer resigns after DeSantis’ office pressured him to send threatening letter to TV stations over Amendment 4 ad
As Florida voters appear to support passing Amendment 4 to enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution, the DeSantis administration has escalated its attempts to thwart the measure’s passage.
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White House says health insurance needs to fully cover condoms, other over-the-counter birth control
The proposal comes days before Election Day, as Vice President Kamala Harris affixes her presidential campaign to a promise of expanding women’s health care access in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to undo nationwide abortion rights two years ago.
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Amendment 4 on campus: FAU’s mixed views on Florida’s abortion vote
As Election Day gets closer, Floridians are preparing to cast their votes on one of the most important issues in the state: abortion rights.
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Group behind Amendment 4 sues DeSantis administration over threats to TV stations
Citing First Amendment rights, the campaign seeks to prevent the state from continuing to “coerce, threaten, or intimate” repercussions to broadcasters airing the ads.
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DeSantis administration ramps up efforts to defeat Amendment 4 as poll shows widespread support for it
Proponents of the amendment to enshrine abortion in the state Constitution say the report – which does not provide evidence for the allegations – is “nothing more than dishonest distractions and desperate attempts to silence voters.”
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Opinion: Next year, your closest abortion clinic could be abroad
Americans could be forced to travel across not state lines, but international boundaries, in order to get an abortion. And even more women may be forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, says the president of EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics.
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DeSantis administration, which claims to oppose censorship, tries to pressure TV station to take down Amendment 4 ads
A letter from the Florida Department of Health threatened a Tampa TV station with a lawsuit if it fails to remove an ad promoting the pro-choice amendment on the November ballot.
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Florida’s six-week abortion ban ‘is frightening,’ says this mother
She faced one of the toughest decisions of her life as she navigated Florida’s abortion restrictions. Now she’s speaking out against them and in support of Amendment 4.
