Florida voters will likely vote on an amendment this year that would make killing babies in abortions up to birth a state Constitutional right.
That’s after the Florida Supreme Court today ruled that the extreme ballot measure can move forward.
As LifeNews.com has reported, the state’s highest court allowed the new heartbeat law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis to take effect that protects babies from abortions. But, unfortunately, that could quickly be reversed if Florida voters approved the radical ballot measure making abortions a right – which would enabled abortions up to birth.
All pro-life laws in Florida are at stake under a proposed constitutional amendment to enshrine all-trimester abortion that will be on Florida’s ballot this November under a second ruling that came from the court this afternoon.
The Florida Supreme Court ruled against Attorney General Ashley Moody’s challenge of the measure for using deceptive language and violating the state’s single-subject requirement.
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In an amicus brief, SBA Pro-Life America explained the amendment’s deceptive use of the word “viability” while at the same time allowing abortion in the third trimester as long as an abortionist approves. Last month, paid signature gatherers for the pro-abortion amendment were arrested for submitting fraudulent signatures.
SBA Pro-Life America issued the following statement from State Policy Director Katie Daniel of Tampa in response:
“We must oppose Prop 4. Not only will this measure bring dangerous late-term abortions back to Florida, but it will allow girls who aren’t old enough to get their ears pierced on their own get an abortion without a parent’s okay. Those girls and the women who have abortions will be put at risk when this measure eliminates every abortion health regulation on the books. In a state where 25% of abortion centers failed inspections it’s no surprise they want to be completely unregulated to increase their profits at the expense of women, girls and babies.”
Florida Voice for the Unborn also commented on the ruling and its director Andrew Shirvell told LifeNews:
“Florida Voice for the Unborn is profoundly disappointed in the Florida Supreme Court for deciding today to compromise with the abortion industry by allowing its misleading proposed constitutional amendment on this November’s General Election ballot, while taking way too long to finally issue, contemporaneously, its long-awaited decision to uphold 2022’s legislatively-enacted 15-Week Abortion Ban. Nonetheless, by overturning prior case law that had improperly held that the privacy clause of the Florida Constitution encompassed a so-called ‘right’ to obtain an abortion within the state of Florida, today’s favorable decision on the 15-Week Abortion Ban means that 2023’s Heartbeat Protection Act is now slated to go into full effect, including the prohibition on the vast majority of Florida abortions after six-weeks’ gestation – and that is a silver lining in an otherwise dark day for Florida’s unborn children.”
Shirvell continued, “One cannot ‘compromise’ with evil – and the abortion industry is pure evil. Today’s ‘compromise’ decisions are simply unacceptable when five of the current seven sitting Justices on the Court were appointed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. Clearly, grassroots pro-life advocates have been misled by elements within the ‘pro-life, pro-family establishment’ because Florida’s highest Court has now revealed itself to be a paper tiger when it comes to standing-up to the murderous abortion industry.”
The abortion measure is backed by the ACLU and Planned Parenthood with nearly one-third of the dollars raised for the abortion amendment coming from the abortion industry who will directly profit from expanded late-term abortions. Implications of the measure include:
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