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Despite receiving 57.1% of votes, Amendment 4 did not achieve the 60% threshold needed to pass. It saw 5,754,423 votes in total. Abortion was on the ballot in 10 states.
Florida Amendment 4 [1] was a proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution, which failed on November 5, 2024. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Through a statewide referendum , the amendment achieved 57% support among voters in the U.S. state of Florida , short of the 60% supermajority required by law.
From 1972 to 2022, abortion was legal in Florida until 24 weeks of pregnancy. In 2022, Florida began to enforce a restriction passed by legislators preventing women from terminating pregnancies ...
Florida's first abortion law was implemented in 1868, lasting until 1972; it stated: [8] [9] Abortion: Every person who shall administer to any woman pregnant with a quick child any medicine, drug or substance whatever, or shall use or employ any instrument or other means, with intent thereby to destroy such child, unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such mother ...
Colorado became a territory in 1861, [10] and its General Laws included a ban on abortion: [11] "[E]very person who shall administer substance or liquid, or who shall use or cause to be used any instrument, of whatsoever kind, with the intention to procure the miscarriage of any woman then being with child, and shall thereof be duly convicted, shall be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three ...
Amendment 4 - Abortion Access "AMENDMENT TO LIMIT GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE WITH ABORTION: No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect ...
Amendment 4 would have restored allowing abortion in Florida up to "fetal viability," usually around 24 weeks. The ACLU called the failed ballot measure a "temporary loss" and called on the ...
Amendment 4 would have created a constitutional right to abortion in the state.