Pro-life advocates are warning that the wording of a proposed abortion amendment to Florida’s Constitution is crafted to “trick” voters into supporting the measure. The critics say the wording is so ambiguous that it could remove all restrictions on abortion in the Sunshine State right up to the point of birth. Mat Staver, the founder and chairman of Maitland-based Liberty Counsel, told The Epoch Times that his organization is “very opposed to the amendment.
” “It is a very radical, extreme, deceptive amendment that would overturn every law related to abortion, except for parental notification,” he said. “That includes parental consent, informed consent, waiting periods, doctor qualifications, and health and safety regulations.” Mr.
Staver also noted that, under the new amendment, abortion practitioners would no longer be required to be licensed physicians. “Abortion practitioners will be totally unregulated, and women would essentially be cast into backyard abortion pushers that will have no regulation whatsoever,” he said. The four justices wrote that “there is no basis for concluding that the proposed amendment is facially invalid under the United States Constitution.
” “Shame on them,” Ms. Bell said of the justices. “This amendment is anything but clear and ambiguous.
So, this is their fault. But now that we’re here, we have to fight this.” Justices Jamie R.
Grosshans, Renatha Francis, and Meredith Sasso voted against allowing the amendme.
