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.
The Senate filibuster rule requires a 60-vote threshold for most legislation to pass, making it virtually impossible to pass abortion rights legislation due to Republican opposition. Without the filibuster, a law restoring Roe v. Wade could pass with a simple majority, or 51 Senate votes.
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.
Ex-President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris met for their first presidential debate—and Trump unleashed a barrage of lies and misleading claims.
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.
