Vote No on Amendment 4

This November, Floridians vote on Amendment 4, sponsored by Planned Parenthood and the radical left. This Amendment is extreme, radical, and deceptive.

The ballot summary reads:

“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 health care provider. This amendment does not change the Legislature’s constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion.”

49 words. Zero definitions or clarifications.

Amendment 4 repeals all common-sense abortion laws enacted by our elected representatives. Viability is not defined. Therefore, painful, dangerous late-term abortions would be legal in Florida under Amendment 4.

“Health” remains undefined under this radical proposal, possibly intentionally. This extreme Amendment goes far beyond allowing abortion to save the life of the mother, which is the current law in Florida.

Under Amendment 4, other types of physical, emotional, and financial circumstances could be used to permit late-term abortion. Further, no definition is given for health care providers, so even non-physicians would be allowed to perform abortions.

Finally, while parental notification sounds reasonable, it replaces Florida’s current law of parental consent. Consent is currently required of parents of minor children to obtain an abortion.

Notification would change all that, and only require the news of an abortion to be reported after the fact. Parents would lose their rights.

Whatever your views on abortion, we all can agree. It's too extreme for Florida.

Scott J Mahurin
Palmetto