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The Florida Supreme Court ruled this week to allow a deceptive abortion amendment that calls for the codification of unlimited abortion through birth in the state’s constitution on the ballot in November.
Attorney General Ashley Moody asked the state court last year to weigh in on the amendment touted by baby-killing ballot measure advocates like the ACLU and abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
The amendment titled “Limit Government Interference with Abortion” states, “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.” A ballot summary claims, “This amendment does not change the Legislature’s constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion.”
Moody, however, warned the amendment’s vague reference to viability and undefined use of the terms “health” and “healthcare provider” could easily deceive voters who overwhelmingly oppose the legalization of killing unborn babies throughout all nine months of gestation.
“The ballot summary here is part of a … design to lay ticking time bombs that will enable abortion proponents later to argue that the amendment has a much broader meaning than voters would ever have thought,” Moody wrote in her brief.
Several local and national pro-life groups — including Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, the National Center for Life and Liberty, Florida Voters Against Extremism, and the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops — filed support briefs expressing similar concerns.
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