A coalition made up of the ACLU of Florida, Planned Parenthood, the Florida Women's Liberation Union, and various other radical groups abolished legal protections for unborn children through a constitutional amendment to the Florida Declaration of Rights, effectively making late-term abortion legal. We have developed a movement to
they failed.
Voters had their say Tuesday and said “no” to
Amendment No. 4.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who had campaigned against the amendment, announced his rejection just after 8 p.m., prompting a flood of praising comments online.
meme DeSantis is pictured strutting over the Florida Democratic Party's symbolic grave, according to his press secretary.
At the time of publication, the amendment had 88% of votes. reticulated The vote percentage was less than 57.2%. 42.9% of voters opposed the amendment. It required 60% of the vote to pass.
“Thank you, Florida!”
tweeted Florida's first lady, Casey DeSantis. “And God bless @GovRonDesantis!”
Christina Pushau, a close aide to Mr. DeSantis, said:
I wrote“Florida has made history again. We defeated the Soros-backed abortion amendment and the corporate-backed marijuana amendment.”
“The Fourth Amendment is a radical and gruesome abortion policy that allows abortion up to the moment of birth.”
Other parts of the state appear to have been less enthusiastic about stripping unborn children of legal protections than residents of Broward, Leon, Orange, and Palm Beach counties.
If this ballot measure secures the 60% of votes needed to pass, the people's democratically elected representatives will be able to “proceed to the state of It would be prohibited to pass laws prohibiting, penalizing, delaying, or restricting abortion in the event of an abortion. by the patient's health care provider. ”
Critics said the amendment's language was intentionally vague and set the stage for virtually unlimited abortion in the Sunshine State.
Taryn Fenske, a spokesperson for Vote No Amendment 4, a group that fought the amendment to the end, previously told Blaze News that the reason for the amendment's “misleading language” was because “Amendment 4 This is because the pro-Soros radicals who promote it know.” They need to hide the shocking reality that their plans endanger the women and children of Florida. ”
The Fourth Amendment would also override the Heartbeat Protection Act, which prohibits killing a fetus after six weeks of pregnancy, unless the mother is a victim of rape, incest, or human trafficking. The mother's life is in danger. or the baby has a fatal fetal abnormality.
Because the amendment failed, the Heartbeat Protection Act remains the law of the land.
Liz Wheeler, BlazeTV host “liz wheeler showHe previously told Blaze News: “The Fourth Amendment is a radical and gruesome abortion policy that allows abortion up to the moment of birth. It means being terminated for a reason.”
“The Fourth Amendment is disingenuously presented as allowing abortions 'only' to viability, but what is viability?” Wheeler continued. “The term survival rate is not defined by law, and survival rate is not a scientific or ethical concept of when human life begins, but simply a scale that changes with advances in medical knowledge. It's just a term that defines our ability to keep a baby alive outside the womb before it reaches full term.
“This will save tens of thousands of babies.”
“If we're interested in building a culture of life in this state and in this country, I think their victory in Florida really means the end of the pro-life movement,” DeSantis said in August. .
The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops condemns this amendment,
make a call It is “an extreme proposal that would legalize full-term abortion without protection for the unborn child.”
“We urge all Floridians of goodwill to oppose the legalization of late-term abortions and oppose the Abortion Amendment,” the bishops' statement continued. “In doing so, we will protect not only the weakest, most innocent and defenseless of humanity, but also countless women across our state from the harms of abortion.”
As it became clear early Tuesday that the Fourth Amendment would fail, the Catholic vote
noticed In X: “It's a big win for Ron DeSantis. It's a big win for his life.”
Archbishop Thomas Wenski of the Archdiocese of Miami told Blaze News in advance that rejecting the Fourth Amendment “would be a tremendous victory for the rights of life and the rights of the unborn.”
“Tens of thousands of infants will be saved because of the failure of Florida's Fourth Amendment.”
tweeted Kristan Hawkins, President of Students for Life. “Let us praise God!”
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