The state Supreme Court ruled that a proposed amendment enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution can appear on the ballot in November.

In a pair of significant decisions, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Monday to uphold a 15-week ban on abortion in the state, while also allowing a proposed amendment that would enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution to appear on the November ballot.

The conservative-leaning court’s decision on the 15-week ban also means that a six-week abortion ban, with exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother, that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law last year will take effect.

But the bench’s ruling to allow the constitutional amendment to appear on the ballot this fall means voters will have a chance in just seven months to undo those restrictions.

Republicans have made multiple moves over the nearly two years since the U.S Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade to restrict access to abortion.

  • @bostonbananarama
    6•8 months ago

    My understanding is that they’re all from the last period.

    I’d love to see the legislators that pass these bills quizzed on the subject. You ban it at 6 weeks, what does the baby look like at 2 weeks? I bet none of them respond, it may not have even been conceived yet.

    It’s not policy that’s rationally decided, it’s theater to woo evangelical Christian’s whose religion exists to persecute others while claiming they themselves are being persecuted.