Just finished explaining to my daughter that she will no longer have health care as good as her brother's healthcare.
#Amendment4
DeSantis going way overboard with his statement on malpractice against physicians just for supporting Amendment 4 🤬
“Some of these physicians that are out there pallin’ around with the #Amendment4 people — if they do that in their practice they are committing malpractice in the state of Florida.
They should lose their medical license in the state of #Florida and, honestly, they should be sued to high heaven for medical #malpractice.”
#abortion #fascism #christiannationalism
https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/10/29/tony-dungy-joins-desantis-in-clearwater-to-advocate-against-amendment-4/
How the #Fascist #RonDeSantis #Administration Is #Targeting #Florida #Amendment4 on #Abortion.
He using #taxpayer #money #trying to #undermine a #citizen-lead #ballot #measure that would allow #voters to #restore #abortionrights in the #state.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/desantis-administration-florida-amendment-4-abortion
Can anyone shed light, factually based, on amendment 4 up for vote in Florida?
Ex #GeneralCounsel of #FLA Dept Of #Health Affirms That He Was Forced By #DeSantis Admin To Threaten Multiple #Florida TV Stations And Demand Removal Of Pro #Amendment4 #Abortion #BallotMeasure Ads.
https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2024/10/21/top-governors-office-executives-drafted-letters-threatening-florida-tv-stations-over-abortion-ads/ #Floriduh #BullyPulpit #Whistleblower #ReproductiveRights #Politics
"To keep it simple for the State of Florida: it’s the First Amendment, stupid". #Amendment4 #Abortion https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/17/media/florida-judge-tv-abortion-rights-ad-health/index.html
judge blocks #DeSantis admin’s threats:
ruling is a win for the sponsor of #Amendment4, #FloridiansProtectingFreedom. The organization argued that the health department’s cease-and-desist letters to television stations airing one of its ads amounted to coercion and viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.
Lauren Brenzel, campaign director for Yes on 4, celebrated the ruling, calling it a critical initial victory.
RonDeSantis’ #Administration Is #Threatening to #Prosecute the #Media for #Airing #ProChoice #Ads.
DeSantis and his #allies are spending large sums of #taxpayer #dollars to #fight #Amendment4, which would #enshrine #abortionrights in the #stateconstitution if voted into #law in November.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #WomansRights #AbortionRights #Abortion #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
#Fascist #DeSantis #administration warns local #TV #stations to #remove #ads about #abortion #ballotmeasure.
The Republican administration is pressuring Florida stations to take down an #ad that promotes a “#yes” #vote on #Amendment4, which would #enshrine #abortionrights in the #state #constitution.
Huge turnout this morning for our #YesOn4 community canvass with old friends and new - we have reached thousands of Jacksonville voters over the past few months who have committed to voting to restore abortion rights in Florida! #Amendment4
Check out our LinkTree for our upcoming canvassing opportunities!
#MostlyFalse: #Florida's #Amendment4 on restoring #abortionrights is short.
Does a lack of #definitions mean there are no rules?
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #WomensRights #Abortion #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Propaganda #Disinformation #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Misogyny #ThePartyOfHate
Last week, members of Jacksonville DSA teamed up with our local chapter of the National Organization of Women to show Ron DeSantis that his ideology of control is not welcome in our city - Jacksonville supports reproductive freedom!
We will pass #Amendment4 in Florida this November and we will restore abortion rights in our state! #yeson4
my (hispanic Catholic) mother just got some extremely dishonest misinformation about #amendment4 down here in #Florida and boy am I pissed off.
#Advocates say #Fascist #Florida #Governor #RonDeSantis #administration is #interfering in #abortionrights #election #fight
"In a series of unprecedented moves this week, #Florida’s #government has escalated its efforts to #sabotage #Amendment4, using #state #resources to #attack the #citizen-led #ballot #initiative aimed at restoring #women’s #healthcare #rights
Cleanup on Aisle MAGA. -- Trump Bends to Conservative Abortion Critics
In the end, Donald Trump, a master of evasion, could only obfuscate for so long.
After hemming, hawing, avoiding, and rambling, he finally admitted Friday night that ♦️he opposes his home state’s abortion-rights ballot initiative.
Insiders had expected him to end up there.
⭐️But Trump had shown a remarkable ability to just say nothing at all.
For months, he was coy about the Florida initiative, which would overrule the state’s current #six-#week #ban by creating a right to abortion in the state constitution.
He said he’d let his position be known at some point and then offered vague responses that didn’t address the fundamental, binary choice of which way he’d vote.
🔥But pressure and anger mounted from social conservatives after he made muddled remarks to NBC that led to a conservative backlash.
And a day later, Friday, he finally made his position clear in a safe-space interview with Fox News.
He started by saying that while he would prefer to extend Florida’s cutoff so that abortions are permitted beyond six weeks
—“you need more time than six weeks”
—he has ultimately decided to vote against #Amendment4 because it would allow for later-term abortions, all the way through birth:
“The nine months is just a ridiculous situation, where you can do an abortion in the ninth month.”
“I’ll be voting no for that reason,” Trump said.
He then #falsely claimed that in “some of the states, like Minnesota, and other states, have it where you could actually execute the baby after birth.”
It was a major relief for evangelicals.
“#Mission #accomplished,” said an evangelical Trump confidant, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/cleanup-on-aisle-maga-trump-bends
‘All Gas, No Brakes’: How #Florida #Advocates Are #Fighting to #Enshrine #AbortionRights in the #SunShineState.
A 60 percent #supermajority from #Florida #voters is still needed for #Amendment4 to #pass on #ElectionDay.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #WomensRights #WomansRights #AbortionRights #Representation #Culture
Next meeting Thurs., 6/13, 6:30 p.m., 4662 Clyde Morris Bv. Guest speaker Tricia Beck-Peter, a community educator with Planned Parenthood, will speak on #Amendment4 . FL House 29 candidate Rosemarie Latham (votelatham.com) will introduce herself. #VoteBlue
Florida’s abortion ban has brought fear and chaos. This is the right’s vision for the US
Florida abortion providers were rushing to perform as many abortions as they could this week, as the days and then the hours dwindled before Florida’s new six-week ban went into effect at the stroke of midnight on Wednesday.
And women, both across Florida and across the south, were rushing to find money, to find transportation, to find a doctor and an appointment in order to end their pregnancies before the law took hold
– a last, desperate rush to control their bodies and their futures before the freedom to do so was taken from them.
By now the images are familiar. Similar scenes unfolded across many states in June of 2022, when doctors and nurses rushed to provide as much care as they could before the US supreme court issued its long-awaited Dobbs ruling, striking down the abortion right nationwide and rendering abortion immediately illegal in states with so-called trigger bans.
Then the scenes played out again as ban after ban went into effect, either timed by statute or imposed by courts, removing women’s rights in one state after another.
The bans spread like an infection, creeping across the country irregularly, with access flickering in and out in the months that followed.
But every new imposed law meant thousands of human catastrophes.
Women sat in crowded waiting rooms, waiting to hear whether their lives and their bodies were still under their control,
and state by state they learned, from clinic staff reading the news, from locked doors and apologies, or from the rushed translations of their fellow patients sitting beside them in vinyl chairs
– that they weren’t.
What played out in Florida this past week was part of the anti-choice movement’s new sadistic regime for a post-Roe America:
the display of lives being curtailed, of dignity being withdrawn, of health being imperiled.
It is a public and deliberately humiliating spectacle for American women: one of freedom being taken away.
The six-week abortion ban that went into effect in Florida on Wednesday is similar to those imposed by other states in the region.
(Florida, with its former 15-week ban, had been a place of relatively easy access in the south, and so had become a destination for women from other states; no longer.)
Now, all abortions are banned after six weeks’ gestational age, which is two weeks after a missed period.
A pre-Dobbs 24-hour waiting period still applies.
There is a rape exception that is available only in the first 15 weeks, and only to women who can provide some “proof” of their assault, like a police report.
There are exceptions for the life of the mother and for “immediately fatal” fetal abnormalities.
“Immediately fatal” is a phrase the law does not define. “I’ve asked three attorneys: what does immediately fatal mean?” one provider told the Orlando Sentinel. “And one told me one day, one told me one week, and one told me a month. How am I supposed to interpret this?”
But ultimately, even vaguely worded exceptions are a moot point:
like all abortion ban exceptions, Florida’s will not be accessible, even to the narrow slice of women who might qualify,
because providers will be too afraid to provide even those abortions that are technically legal in a state where performing an abortion that a prosecutor thinks is illegal could earn them a felony conviction.
This is already happening in the state:
under the previous, 15-week ban, women have almost died after experiencing complications that they have not been able to receive treatment for.
Some have been turned away from emergency rooms.
In November, Florida voters will have an opportunity to enshrine abortion rights into their state constitution in
#Amendment4,
which would restore access in the state to Roe-era levels.
But victory for the amendment is far from certain, and at any rate, the vote is a long six months away.
In the meantime, under the new, stricter ban, things will only get worse.
Like so much in our political life, the status of women more broadly seems to only be getting worse.
The abortion bans that have swept the nation after Dobbs have drawn the most attention for their murderous cruelty, for the women whose lives have been endangered and warped because hateful laws deny them care in moments of medical emergency.
But they have also stolen dignity and basic freedom from American women, transformed so many of their lives into different and unchosen ones, marked their bodies as sites of legally mandated debasement.
The scenes that played out in Florida this week
– the overworked nurses, the crammed schedules, the desperate rush
– are themselves an indignity, because they represent something that no American should have to endure:
the withdrawal of a right that is fundamental to their citizenship.
This is what it looks like when life becomes smaller, crueler, and less free. It is an ugly sight.
Vote Florida!
FL Republicans Ban Abortions
“Hold the Florida #Republican legislators who were involved in banning abortions accountable!
Check this map for every #Florida legislator: State House, State Senate, Congressional rep, Senator, Governor and State Attorney General, along with their contact details.
It includes details on how to register to voter in Florida, check your #VoterID and details on #Amendment4 which is the ballot measure to restore abortion rights”
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/05/01/florida-republicans-ban-abortions-map-of-who-to-hold-accountable/
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