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.
Citing First Amendment rights, the campaign seeks to prevent the state from continuing to “coerce, threaten, or intimate” repercussions to broadcasters airing the ads.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.