Florida Court Allows 6-Week Abortion Ban, but Voters Will Get to Weigh In
nytimes.com
Note: "6 weeks" counts from last-period-date, so it means as little as two weeks since conception, which is before many women realize they are pregnant
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Sorta like Florida voters voted to have recreational cannabis but the gov't stepped in and said "Nuh uh!"? As if Florida voters actually have any real say-so.
Or like when Floridans voted to allow anyone who finished their prison sentence to be allowed to vote again, and FL gov said "how about we implement a poll tax instead?"
TIL about Florida's Amendment 4 and SB 7066. Ouch. Y'all doing okay?
I don't live there anymore, but I was pretty pissed when they circumvented what we voted for. (It would have added a ton of dem votes, and probably pushed it to a solid blue state, which is why I guess they needed to do anything to stop it)
Holy fuck, I didn't realize how many voters this affected.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement_in_Florida#:~:text=In%20Florida%20about%201.6%20million,because%20of%20outstanding%20financial%20obligations.
It just gets worse the more you read.
We're definitely not. Please send help.
The amendment for recreational pot is going on the ballot this November. The petition was shot down twice, once for the wording on the ballot and the second time for not "securing enough signatures". This time it passed. The first vote for medical failed to get a super majority but the second round passed. No one in Florida has had a chance to vote on recreational pot in the past as far as I can find/remember.
Don't get me wrong, it's frustrating bullshit that we've had to fight it twice to get it on the ballot. But to say we've already voted for (and passed) it twice is verifiably false