The Court will allow Florida's brutal six-week abortion ban to take effect, but it will also allow a ballot measure to enshrine a constitutional right to abortion to move forward.that the state’s 15-week abortion ban is constitutional—allowing a six-week abortion ban signed it last year) to take effect in 30 days.
“We are thrilled Floridians will have the opportunity to reclaim their bodily autonomy and freedom from government interference by voting for Amendment 4 this November,” Floridians Protecting Freedom campaign director Lauren Brenzel said in a statement shared with Jezebel. In light of the six-week ban that will soon take effect, Brenzel says the ballot measure “is our chance to engage in direct democracy to stop these unpopular and harmful policies.
In every state where abortion rights have been put directly on the ballot, they’ve won. Just last November, despite one daunting hurdle from the state’s anti-abortion government officials after another, Ohioa measure to establish a right to abortion.