Abortion rights advocates rally South Florida voters to say "yes" to Amendment 4 just days before 2024 election FORT LAUDERDALE— Florida voters could put the right to get an abortion in the state's constitution on Nov. 5. If Amendment 4 passes, it would limit the state's authority to r...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in Missouri cleared the way to undo one of the nation's most restrictive abortion bans in one of seven victories for abortion rights advocates, while Florida, Nebraska andSouth Dakotadefeated similar constitutional amendments, leaving bans in place...
Yet the fate of reproductive rights in the Sun Belt is far from sealed. Abortion opponents have vowed to challenge the initiative in state court, and if they aren’t successful there in striking it down, push for another ballot measure next cycle to overturn...
A ballot measure in Florida to enshrine abortion rights has failed to secure the necessary votes, according to the Associated Press. As results for the 2024 election roll in, votes late Tuesday indicate that the state’s six-week abortion ban that took effect in May—one of the country’s ...
Wednesday's filing is the latest in a series of legal tussles between the state and advocates for abortion rights surrounding the ballot measure, which would protect the right to abortion until fetal viability, considered to be somewhere past 20 weeks. It would override t...
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Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, a ballot-initiative organization that has helped with the Arizona, Florida, Missouri, Montana and Nebraska initiatives to protect abortion rights, said that state initiatives were driven by activists on the ground who were advocating...
The measure faced an uphill battle in the red state where Donald Trump, a Florida resident, said during the campaign that he would vote against it. The Hill notes that Florida is now the first state to defeat an abortion rights amendment since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in ...
A measure that allows more abortion restrictions and enshrines the state’s current 12-week ban was adopted in Nebraska and a competing one to ensure abortion rights failed. Results were still pending in Montana. Advertisement The Missouri and Florida results represent firsts in ...
Abortion rights advocates, opponents have been prepping for six week abortion ban MIAMI- Florida's 'heartbeat law', also known as thesix week abortion ban, is now in effect. It's a day Angela Curatalo said the Office of Respect Life Ministry for the Archdiocese of Miami has w...