Florida ‘Right to Abortion’ Ballot Initiative Will Include WARNING About Tax Dollars and Parental Consent Laws

Will voters in red state Florida amend the state constitution to codify unrestricted abortion?

Voters will choose Yes or No on the “Right to Abortion Initiative” in November to support “establishing a constitutional right to abortion before fetal viability,” and a 60 percent majority must choose Yes for it to pass.

Liberty Counsel reported on the financial impact of the amendment should it pass.

“The warning states the amendment may require the state to use taxpayer dollars to fund abortions, invalidate parental consent laws, and negatively affect the growth of the Florida budget over time due to less people being born and due to litigation to resolve legal uncertainties.”

All of that sounds bad. Would Floridians actually vote to pass such a thing? Abortion advocates certainly don’t like the warning and tried to block it from appearing on the ballot.

But they lost the argument. From Liberty Counsel:

Florida’s First District Court of Appeal dismissed a legal challenge this week clearing the way for the impact statement, drafted by the state’s Financial Impact Estimating Conference, to go on the ballot.
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Pro-abortion groups have petitioned the Florida Supreme Court to have the statement removed from the ballot. If the state’s High Court agrees to hear the case, Liberty Counsel will file an amicus brief.

Mat Staver, Liberty Counsel founder and Chairman, called Amendment 4 extreme.

“The financial impact statement is merely a taste of the extreme nature of Amendment 4,” he said. “Voters should understand that this amendment will not only allow abortion up to birth for any reason, but will force Floridians to pay for abortion, and will place women at extreme risk by overriding every health and safety standard.”

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