Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The amendment would have enshrined a right to abortion in the Florida Constitution before fetal viability (generally considered to be between 23 and 24 weeks gestational age) and nullified then-existing statutes such as the Heartbeat Protection Act. It would have also permitted abortion after viability (23 weeks to birth) for any reason a ...
Abortion-rights and anti-abortion activists voice their opinions outside the Florida Supreme Court after the Court heard arguments on the proposed abortion amendment Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024.
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 ...
Amendment 4, titled 'Amendment to limit government interference with abortion' or 'abortion amendment', sought to protect abortion access in Florida. It would have made abortion legal until fetal ...
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 voters will have the final say on a constitutional amendment to guarantee access to abortion after the state's Supreme Court Monday decided to allow the question on the 2024 statewide ballot.
The ballot measure needed 60% of the vote to pass.
2024 Florida Amendments: Amendment 2, right to fish and hunt. ... Amendment 4, amendment to limit government interference with abortion or 'abortion amendment' Sponsor: Floridians Protecting ...