With the defeat of this measure, Florida becomes the first state to reject an abortion-rights ballot measure sinceRoe v. Wadewas overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022. Including Florida, abortion rights wereon the ballots in 10 statesduring the 2024 election. According toBallotpedia, that’s...
The proposed amendment,Amendment 4, is on the ballot in theNov. 5 election. It would enshrine abortion rights in the Constitution. A 26-page document filed in Leon County circuit court said the state Constitution does not give the political committee, Floridians Protecting Freedom, a "right to...
Scholten is fending off a challenge from Republican Paul Hudson, who unsuccessfully ran for the state Supreme Court in 2022. Democrats currently have a significant spending advantage on the airwaves: Scholten and her allies have placed more than $3 million in the gen...
Florida Supreme Court puts Nader on election ballot
In 2022, there were ballot measures dealing with abortion in six states, including generally conservative Kansas, Kentucky and Montana. In each of them, the abortion-rights side prevailed.
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The defeat, which was reported byUSmedia, marks the first pro-abortion rights ballot measure to fail since theUS Supreme Courtin 2022 overturnedRoe v Wade,the ruling that had given women a federal right to the procedure. Read moreGender gap: How the US election is becoming a battle o...
The Supreme Court’s 4-3 ruling on the ballot initiative could deliver a stunning blow to Gov. Ron DeSantis and state Republicans, who have passed strict abortion laws in recent years that ban the procedure at 15 weeks without exceptions for rape and incest and another six-week ban that ha...
march 31, 2022 by reuters | march 31, 2022, at 12:51 p.m. save comment more florida judge blocks republican-backed voting law as discriminatory more reuters file photo: poll worker stands next to a ballot collection van during drive-thru voting on election day in west palm ...
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court issued its blockbuster decision in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which effectively overturned Roe v. Wade and threw abortion policy back to the states. More than a dozen states have since enactednear-total bans on abortion, while...