Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
Claim: Amendment 4 would protect a woman’s decision to have an abortion This is true. Amendment 4 would end restrictions on abortions before a fetus could survive outside of the uterus.
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 would have created a constitutional right to abortion in the state.
Florida Amendment 4: abortion rights Amendment 4 failed, with only 57.1% of the votes in favor. It would have restored allowing abortion in Florida up to "fetal viability," usually around 24 weeks.
2021 San Marino abortion referendum; 2022 California Proposition 1; 2022 Kansas abortion referendum; 2022 Kentucky Amendment 2; 2022 Michigan Proposal 3; 2022 Montana Legislative Referendum 131; 2022 Vermont Proposal 5; 2024 Arizona Proposition 139; 2024 Colorado Amendment 79; 2024 Florida Amendment 4; 2024 Maryland Question 1; 2024 Missouri ...
The governor has pushed back hard against Amendment 4 since the beginning: fighting the amendment’s existence in Florida’s Supreme Court; hiring outside consultants to help craft a fiscal ...