Tue Oct 10, 2023 – 4:50 pm EDT
TALLAHASSEE (LifeSiteNews) — Florida’s Republican Attorney General Ashley Moody is asking the Florida Supreme Court to reject a proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution that would insulate abortion-on-demand from government intervention, arguing its language deceives voters as to what they would actually be establishing in the Sunshine State.
A coalition of left-wing and pro-abortion groups called Floridians Protecting Freedom (FPF) is seeking to put before voters in November 2024 a state constitutional amendment declaring that “no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider”; with an exception for an existing provision of the constitution that permits parental notification for minors’ abortions.
On Monday, Moody filed a request for the state’s highest court, which reviews proposed constitutional amendments, to reject this proposal on three grounds that it “does not satisfy the legal requirements for ballot placement,” CBS News reports. FPF previously cleared its first hurdle by submitting 402,082 valid signatures, and must collect a total of 891,523 by February 1.
Moody added that her formal legal case against the amendment will be
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