Tue Sep 17, 2024 – 5:02 pm EDT
ORLANDO (LifeSiteNews) — More than 300 Florida physicians spanning multiple disciplines are banding together to oppose the ballot initiative to add abortion-on-demand to the Florida Constitution, using their expertise to strengthen the case that Amendment 4 is bad medicine.
Amendment 4, the so-called “Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion,” states that “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.” If enacted, it would require abortion to be allowed for any reason before fetal “viability” and render post-“viability” bans effectively meaningless by exempting any abortion that an abortionist claims is for “health” reasons. If successful, it would overturn Florida’s six-week abortion ban.
Abortion, which always destroys an innocent unborn child, is always gravely immoral and is never needed nor justifiable for reasons of “health.”
The amendment ostensibly says that it “does not change the Legislature’s constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion.” But many, such as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, have warned that “there’s a difference between consent,” which is what current
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