No on 4 starts bus tour to help defeat abortion rights initiative
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'Amendment 4 consists of just 39 words, yet it poses significant risks to the safety and rights of Floridians,' opposition group says.

The No on 4 group is hitting on the road.

The opposition group against the upcoming abortion rights initiative is launching a statewide bus tour Wednesday to visit churches and drum up support. The Florida Family Voice Vote No on Amendment 4 Bus Tour starts at Port Saint Lucie and continues through Oct. 17.

“Voice for Life Tour 2024 will focus on the unborn, with the goal of defeating Amendment 4 in the upcoming election — the most pressing threat currently facing the unborn and their mothers in Florida,” the group’s website said.

The schedule is:

— Oct. 2: Grace Immanuel Church in Port Saint Lucie, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

— Oct. 3: South Daytona Christian Center in Daytona, 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

— Oct. 8: Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola, 8:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

— Oct. 8: Captain Anderson’s in Panama City, 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

— Oct. 9: Celebration Baptist Church in Tallahassee, 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

— Oct. 10: Christian Family Chapel in Jacksonville, 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

— Oct. 11: Iglesia Cristo Vive in Miami, 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

— Oct. 15: Word of Life World Outreach in Ft. Myers, 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

— Oct. 16: Nacion De Fe Tampa in Tampa, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

— Oct. 17: First Orlando in Orlando, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

— Oct. 17: Calvary Church in Clearwater, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

People can register to attend a rally on the group’s website.

Pro-life advocates say the Amendment 4 ballot initiative to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution was written vaguely and will deregulate the abortion industry.

“Amendment 4 consists of just 39 words, yet it poses significant risks to the safety and rights of Floridians,” the group said in a press release. “This amendment fails to define critical terms such as ‘viability,’ ‘health care provider,’ and ‘patient’s health.’ The lack of clarity creates loopholes and allows late-term abortions — far beyond when science confirms that a baby can feel pain.”

However, abortion advocates argue the ballot initiative is clear and uses the term “viability” — which is a medical term and defined in state law already. Viability, the period when an unborn child can survive outside the womb, is considered to be about 24 weeks.

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.”

No on 4 also claims the proposed constitutional change “would uniquely allow minors to undergo abortions without parental consent, making it the only medical procedure exempt from this critical safeguard in Florida,” the group said in a press release.

The Amendment 4 campaign says that is not true.

The ballot wording adds, “This amendment does not change the Legislature’s constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion.”

The political committee Floridians Protecting Freedom, which led the citizen’s effort to get the issue on the ballot, argues Florida’s six-week abortion ban is a near total abortion ban. Victims of rape and incest can get abortions up to 15 weeks if they get documentation providing of crimes against them, like a police report or medical report. Critics say that’s an unnecessary hoop for already victimized women to jump through.

Gabrielle Russon

Gabrielle Russon is an award-winning journalist based in Orlando. She covered the business of theme parks for the Orlando Sentinel. Her previous newspaper stops include the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Toledo Blade, Kalamazoo Gazette and Elkhart Truth as well as an internship covering the nation’s capital for the Chicago Tribune. For fun, she runs marathons. She gets her training from chasing a toddler around. Contact her at [email protected] or on Twitter @GabrielleRusson .


8 comments

  • YES ON 4

    October 2, 2024 at 10:13 am

    YES ON 4

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  • cassandra was right

    October 2, 2024 at 4:02 pm

    This special interest church group has no right to FORCE its RELIGIOUS OPINIONS on other people. Separation of church and state.

    DEMOCRACY NOT THEOCRACY!
    YES on 4

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  • cassandra was right

    October 2, 2024 at 4:32 pm

    Georgia’s Judge Robert McBurney strikes down 6 week ban, ruling it is “forcing women to be “human incubators.”” Jessica Valenti, Abortioneveryday.com

    “Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote. Forcing a woman to carry an unwanted, not-yet-viable fetus to term violates her constitutional rights to liberty and privacy, even taking into consideration whatever bundle of rights the not-yet-viable fetus may have.

    …It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could–or should–force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another.” —- Judge Robert McBurney

    VOTE YES on 4!

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  • Cheesy Floridian

    October 2, 2024 at 8:27 pm

    Yes on 4!

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  • MarvinM

    October 2, 2024 at 9:55 pm

    That’s interesting – mostly breakfast meetings (apparently breakfast provided).
    Who can come out on a weekday at 8 or 9 am for a two hour event? Why is it a two hour event? How the heck much is all this costing?
    Doesn’t seem cost-effective to me.
    Hope the organization isn’t just grifting people.
    Meantime, YES on 4.

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  • Jojo

    October 3, 2024 at 12:57 pm

    I have an idea… if you are opposed to abortion then don’t get one. Otherwise leave everybody else alone.

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  • Ocean Joe

    October 3, 2024 at 8:20 pm

    Sounds like an obscene waste of perfectly good diesel.

    Reply

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