Gabrielle Russon
Doctors are knocking on doors and rallying for Amendment 4 in St. Petersburg and Tampa during the last weekend before Tuesday’s election.
Floridians Protecting Freedom also reported about $450,000 in campaign donations through Oct. 30, which brings the Amendment 4 political committee’s final count to $110 million since April 2023.
It’s the final push for Amendment 4, which is expected to be decided by a razor-thin margin on Tuesday. While abortion rights initiatives have passed across the country, Florida’s measure needs at least 60% of the vote to succeed.
Recent polls show a major of Florida voters support abortion rights, but it’s unclear whether the necessary supermajority will do so.
The proposed constitutional amendment would limit government interference on abortion before viability — which is considered about 24 weeks — or to save the mother’s life.
Florida passed an abortion ban on most pregnancies starting at six weeks that went into effect in May.
Some doctors are taking a more political role speaking out on the abortion rights issues and are expected to play an important role in FPF’s mobilizing efforts this weekend.
“Physicians in Florida have given resounding support towards Amendment 4, with over 850 doctors officially endorsing the campaign and calling on Floridians to return private healthcare decisions to women and their doctors and away from politicians,” according to a FPF press release.
Meanwhile, Florida Physicians Against Amendment 4 has said more than 700 physicians and medical professionals signed a petition against abortion rights initiative. The group, which has joined Gov. Ron DeSantis at anti-abortion rallies across the state, declined to release a list of the names for privacy reasons but said the petition signers were from 100 cities across Florida and nearly every county.
DeSantis attacked doctors who voiced their concerns that Florida’s exemptions create fear and murky rules for physicians treating pregnant women who develop complications.
“Honestly, they should be sued to high heaven for medical malpractice,” DeSantis said at an Oct. 29 rally.
6 comments
Rita Joseph
November 2, 2024 at 7:39 am
Ballots can’t change our fundamental moral obligations.
There can be no ballot results in any State that can set aside the US Constitution’s founding principle that forbids the deliberate killing of our fellow human beings.
Both science and reason tell us that our unborn children are fellow human beings, smaller than us but already belonging to our human family. Once conceived, each new human being is already one of us—the very same human being from conception to natural death—unique, lovable, always deserving of our protection.
The Founders recognized the “self-evident” truth that, for all human beings created equal, their right to life is the unalienable gift of “their Creator.”
JustBabs
November 2, 2024 at 10:59 am
The founders also lived in a time where recipes for abortifacients were provided, freely, in their colonial newspapers. Abortion is a part of life. It has always been part of every human society. Those who think they should have a say in the private lives of others, and force their beliefs on others, are fighting a losing battle. Their extremist ideology is only going to create more desparate decisions, take away safe treatments, both for abortion, as a choice, and in any and all emergency, prenatal emergencies. Banning abortions will kill more women and fetuses. As the mortality rates, post abortion laws, are already revealing. Not to mention the trauma and fear now added to pregnancies. Pregnant women are “untouchable” in emergency situations. Regardless if it is a life threatening condition, they are left bleeding, in pain, until the brink of death. We all will begin experiencing losing more loved ones, due to pregnancy.
Michael
November 2, 2024 at 7:56 am
“Honestly, they should be sued to high heaven for medical malpractice,” DeSantis said at an Oct. 29 rally.
Stick your own lane, Ron…..you are an expert in political malpractice only.
cassandra was right
November 2, 2024 at 6:06 pm
“Honestly, they should be sued to high heaven for medical malpractice,” DeSantis said at an Oct. 29 rally.”
Listen to this flippant remark! The casual cruelty is horrifying. This is women’s lives! This is how Ron responds to an emergency HE CREATED! Telling the victims they should sue! No, Ron should send his police force to investigate how this is happening! Pass laws. Arrest doctors. Prosecute for attempted murder, assault, kidnapping, whatever fits. Lock them up! Fine hospitals. But Ron’s not interested. He just jokes about it! Immoral, indecent.
Ron rushed through laws for bathrooms, drag shows, pronouns, and all other bs, but he just casually and disrespectfully tells women to sue doctors if they are injured or killed! It’s not a crime to harm women and girls, just embryos! That is terrifying! Ron is saying too bad to women and girls; you take care of it! Saying: I demanded this faulty law. It’s being misused by doctors but I don’t care enough to fix it. Go ahead and suffer. Some of you will die, but you can sue!!!
This is the outcome DeSantis and the prolifers wanted. Prolifers are celebrating! They want to make abortion “unthinkable”. A few dead or mangled women and girls is an acceptable trade for them. It should not be acceptable to the rest of us!
Vote YES on 4!
RecallelectionNext
November 3, 2024 at 11:11 am
DeSantis is about to lose three $100 million campaigns in the same calendar year.
No gaslighting there. He is a failure.
Billy Nash
November 3, 2024 at 2:50 pm
DeSantis needs to keep his nose out of a woman’s health and reproductive decisions. A woman should be free to make decisions between her conscience, her doctor and her God. Ron DeSantis has no business butting in.
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