Abortion

After Floridians Protecting Freedoms successfully placed Amendment 4 on the ballot, the DeSantis administration launched its own campaign to derail the initiative at what critics say is a steep cost to taxpayers.

During a Zoom conference with supporters, the Republican Senator said the ballot measure was nothing more than a ruse or a gimmick to mobilize women voters in the state and repeated lies about abortion.

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. 

The DeSantis administration’s investigation of signatures that were previously deemed valid “is what state-authorized election interference looks like,” say pro-choice activists.