Women’s Health
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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.
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Judge refuses to block DeSantis’ taxpayer-funded website opposing Amendment 4
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.
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Rick Scott dismisses Amendment 4 as a gimmick targeting women voters
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.
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DeSantis claims he’s “exempt” from law banning interference with Amendment 4
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.
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Abortion restrictions delay necessary medical care, Florida physicians say in new report
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.
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‘We’re told to do malpractice’: Florida doctor highlights devastating impacts of six-week abortion ban
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.
