The battle for the "right" to kill your unborn child isn't just being fought on a national level. Right now, Florida Democrats are pushing an amendment to the Florida state constitution that would remove nearly all restrictions on abortion by prohibiting the regulation of abortion.
Titled "Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion," the proposed amendment text is as follows:
Limiting government interference with abortion. — Except as provided in Article X, Section 22, 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.
This intentionally vague language is designed to do one thing: Bypass Florida's pro-life protections.
Writing for the Miami Herald, Grazie Pozo Christie (a board-certified radiologist and licensed physician who practices fetal ultrasound in the Miami area and a founding member of Florida Physicians Against Amendment 4) explained:
I feel that misunderstandings abound about what Amendment 4 would actually mean for our fellow Floridians. Contained within the text are meticulously crafted loopholes designed to throw the door wide open to unrestricted abortion under any and all circumstances. In short, I feel this proposal is deceptively dangerous.
The language of the proposal is intentionally vague. For example, the amendment states that a woman's 'healthcare provider' can declare an abortion 'necessary' at any point in pregnancy.
Florida law defines a health provider as any person, institution, or organization that is licensed, certified, or authorized by law to provide healthcare services. This includes hospitals, physicians, healthcare centers, clinics and laboratories, which means not just not just OBGYNs and other trained physicians would be making life and death decisions for Florida women and girls.
Later, she also notes that the qualifier "before viability," is not defined, leaving the question to be determined by an undefined "health care provider."
Finally, she points out the intentionally vague use of the term "health":
This isn't only vague because of the wide-open definition of "healthcare provider." It also fails to specify the term 'health', thus allowing any condition one could dream up to be used as justification, including anxiety or panic attacks or mental health issues.
If you ever needed a reminder that the fight for conservative values begins on the local and state level, this is it.
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