The State of Florida has a petition-initiative method of putting state amendments to a referendum so that every two years there's at least a handful of referenda on the ballots.
Right now, there's a petition to get a Pro-Choice abortion amendment on the 2024 referendum needing more signatures.
Here's the wording:
No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider. This amendment does not change the Legislature’s constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion.
It would prevent the Republican-controlled legislature - and that bully DeSantis - from passing any harsher restrictions on abortion access. The state is currently set at 15 weeks, which is hampered by the various roadblocks that other laws use to slow a woman's ability to schedule and have an abortion, and the restrictions harm women in later stages of pregnancy suffering medical heartbreaks and life-threatening emergencies.
If you're a Florida resident and a registered voter and you believe that women (and their health care providers) should have their say in their own health care, that there are times when abortion is a valid choice, then please visit that link, click on the Petition button to download the PDF form, fill out and mail it in as soon as possible, please and thank you.
Republicans do NOT represent the majority of Americans who believe abortion should be a choice, but with the current gerrymandering tricks skewing political power to them we are not going to get the representation we deserve. This amendment will give power to our representation, and give women their power to choose - with proper medical advice - for themselves.
2 comments:
Florida requires a 60% supermajority to pass initiatives like that don't they? Still doable, I would think, but more difficult.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
It is tricky. Florida passed their 60 percent supermajority years ago to combat a lot of the frivolous amendments getting put into referendum. But we've been able to pass some very liberal-leaning amendments even with that restriction. If the support for abortion is around 65 percent like it is in the national polling, this has a shot to win.
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