Gabrielle Russon
A new political action committee is launching to fight against the abortion rights initiative on the Nov. 5 ballot.
A press release noting the launch of Life First PC said the group has a “singular mission: to defeat Amendment Four, a proposed extreme pro-abortion amendment to the Florida Constitution.”
“Life First PC is committed to protecting the sanctity of life and ensuring that the voices of the unborn are heard and defended,” the release added.
It’s not the only group raising money against Amendment 4.
Florida Voters Against Extremism has raised about $1.5 million, including $100,000 from the Diocese of Venice and $15,000 from the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops. Meanwhile, Floridians Protecting Freedom, which is sponsoring Amendment 4, has raised $39 million so far.
Florida currently has a six-week abortion ban.
A new poll showed 69% in support of Amendment 4 — enough for it to meet the 60% threshold to pass and enshrine abortion rights into the state constitution.
Amendment 4 says, “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.”
The ballot language also specifically says Amendment 4 “does not change the Legislature’s constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion.”
However, Life First claims on its website the amendment “allows minors to have an abortion without parental consent and parental notification.”
Life First PC, seeking to bring out “40.1% of the voters” to reject Amendment 4, called the initiative “a direct threat to the values of life and protection that many Floridians hold dear.”
“Life First PC stands resolute in opposing this amendment and advocating for a culture that respects and upholds the dignity of life from conception to natural death,” the press release added.
A grassroots effort helped get the abortion rights initiative on the ballot. The campaign has faced opposition from the state. The latest challenge is the campaign’s legal battle attempting to remove a “financial impact statement” that is set to appear on the ballot warning about potential legal costs and more if Florida voters pass it.
15 comments
Cha Ron
July 30, 2024 at 2:22 pm
“Dignity of life” is the self-evident price we owe each other for the privilege of calling ourselves human, but this Stygian culture is comprised of people who would blithely snatch that dignity of life away from the most helpless among us for a reason no greater than convenience–that their pregnant body won’t fit into their new bathing suit.
cassandra was right
August 1, 2024 at 10:28 am
“….a reason no greater than convenience–that their pregnant body won’t fit into their new bathing suit”
Citation needed
And keep it up….rent a billboard! Your offensive comment demonstrates exactly why Florida needs Amendment 4 to protect women’s “self evident” right to control their own body. It’s not even controversial. Over 80% of Americans agree that the government should not be involved in abortion decisions.
YES on Amendment 4 !!!
jean solomon
August 2, 2024 at 11:44 am
you don’t know much about women and bathing suits do you/ let me give you a clue…there are bathing suits out there designed for pregnant women…even the one ‘she ‘ has can be worn as long as she wants to wear it..@@
ScienceBLVR
July 30, 2024 at 2:39 pm
Life First PC is committed to protecting the sanctity of life and ensuring that the voices of the unborn are heard and defended,” the release added.
2 and really, only 2 issues here.
First, If this PC’s mission is as stated above, where is the commitment to the “born”, you know, their rights to be heard and defended?
Secondly, a PAC, Legislators, or anyone else, doesn’t get a stake in the decision. Period, the end.
Cha Ron
July 30, 2024 at 3:26 pm
Hey, “Science”, I’m not spending my time advocating for the above, but your question and your objection simply can’t go unanswered. First, there is no requirement that any group that advocates for any position take up the cause of dealing with the consequences of that advocacy. If there were, then Just Stop Oil would be required to spend its resources advocated for displaced oil workers. Second, a PAC is made up of people who live, breathe and vote and most certainly do have a stake in a decision. Your objection crashes into the example of labor unions: do you think the AFL-CIO have a stake in legislation because it passes some ridiculous test of moral virtue while the pro-lifers don’t?:
cassandra was right
August 1, 2024 at 11:35 am
Thanks for the clarification. You are saying that the babies born are just unfortunate consequences that you can and will ignore. You’ve made it clear that your sole purpose is to stop women from exercising control over their own lives and bodies.
Since this is straight out of Trump’s Project 2025, are you also advocating for bans on contraception and no-fault divorce, monitoring women’s fertility and reproductive functions, tracking women’s travel, and the federal government’s responsibility to capture and return women to states they’ve escaped from? Trump’s Project 2025 plans all this and more. YES on Amendment 4
jean solomon
August 2, 2024 at 11:40 am
correct me if i’m wrong..but don’t people have a choice as to whether or not they join a union? and if you insist that a women carry the zygote to term,,then you are responsible for the resulting child…its what you demanded!! so put up or shut up!
jean solomon
August 2, 2024 at 11:31 am
i had no idea that fetus’ have a voice..and these people seem to forget but did not know that no-one is forced to have an abortion…and how about forcing men/boys to have a vasectomy…that would solve the problem..
cassandra was right
August 3, 2024 at 2:51 pm
100%
Mandatory vasectomy at puberty. Women don’t get pregnant from sex. Women get pregnant from sperm. It’s the males who need to change their behavior.
Childless Cat Lady
July 30, 2024 at 2:52 pm
VOTE FOR HER!
baby free from facist BS
July 31, 2024 at 8:00 am
“the voices of the unborn are heard and protected?” – seriously who writes this drivel? Who would presume to know what a zygote thinks or would say if it could speak? My guess is that it would fully support the person whose womb it was in and the ability of said woman to make decisions about her body including the zygote. But, I don’t have a clue on the ability of a zygote to think or to make decisions I do know that a woman has the right to bodily autonomy free from interference from the government. In my view the Catholic donors to the PAC should have spent their money paying for mental damages to all the kids that their holy men molested. The Holy Bible doesn’t prohibit abortion or birth control! The perverts who pretend to interpret it have made that up out of whole cloth!
Cha Ron
July 31, 2024 at 2:48 pm
The Holy Bible doesn’t prohibit drunk driving either, but it remains a social scourge and an example of how one man’s overwrought notion of liberty can destroy the happiness and life of another.
cassandra was right
August 1, 2024 at 11:57 am
It’s the woman’s body. It’s the woman’s choice!
If you’re having trouble understanding, google:
•Ayn Rand abortion right the most important
•McFall v. Shimp
jean solomon
August 2, 2024 at 11:34 am
uh,,RON,,,,NO-one was driving a car in biblical times…its was camels and donkeys.
Yrral
August 4, 2024 at 7:16 am
Anti Abortions Lt Gov Mark Robinson of North Carolina admit wife had abortion Google Mark Robinson Wife Abortion
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