Florida ballot measure that would have paved way for enshrinement of abortion rights in the state constitution failed to meet the required 60 per cent threshold Tuesday (Nov 5), in a major setback to abortion rights advocates.
On the flip side, the mandate is seen as a major victory for Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had been a vocal critic of the proposed amendments.
The ballot defeat means that a six-week abortion ban will remain in place in the red s…

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Florida abortion ballot measure falls flat in a major win for Gov Ron DeSantis

A proposal to amend Florida's state constitution to guarantee abortion rights fell short of the 60% vote threshold needed to pass, Edison Research projected on Tuesday, making it the first such measure to fail since the U.S. Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to the procedure in 2022. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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A proposal to amend Florida’s state constitution to guarantee abortion rights fell short of the 60% vote threshold needed to pass on Tuesday, becoming the first such measure to fail since the U.S. Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to the procedure in 2022.

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Did the majority of people vote to restore abortion rights via Florida's abortion measure? Yes. Did it matter? No.

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on and restore . But it didn’t matter.The Florida abortion measure, Amendment 4, which would have allowed abortion up to the point of fetal viability, lost anyway. The final tally was 57 percent yes to 43 percent no. The result effectively means that a minority of voters decided the state’s future on the issue, and gave the state the distinction of becoming the first to have an abortion ballot measure fail post-Dobbs.Confusing, I know. You’d thi…

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A ballot measure in Florida to enshrine abortion rights has failed to secure the necessary votes, according to the Associated Press. As results for the 2024 election roll in, votes late Tuesday indicate that the state’s six-week abortion ban that took effect in May—one of the country’s most restrictive abortion bans—will remain in place. The Florida ballot measure was a proposed amendment to Florida’s constitution and required a 60% vote to be a…

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On May 1, Florida’s six-week abortion ban took effect, shuttering access to the procedure across the entire South. Six months later, Florida Republicans led by Gov. Ron DeSantis managed to crush Amendment 4, a ballot measure to enshrine a right to abortion in the state Constitution and repeal the current ban. To be clear, Amendment 4 received a decisive majority of the vote—around the same as the strong margins in other states that have successf…

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(Reuters) -A proposal to amend Florida’s state constitution to guarantee abortion rights fell short of the 60% vote threshold needed to pass, Edison Research projected on Tuesday, making it the first such measure to fail since the U.S. Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to the procedure in 2022. Florida was among 10 states where abortion was on the ballot in Tuesday’s election for the U.S. presidency and control of Congress.  Edison pr…

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In a significant but ultimately unsuccessful campaign, a proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution that would have enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution won a majority of the vote in Tuesday’s election. However, the measure fell short of the 60% threshold needed for passage. The amendment, known as Amendment 3, received 58.9% of the vote, according to preliminary results. While this represents a substantial majority of voters,…

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