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Attorney General Ashley Moody's office and abortion opponents are urging justices to consider another part of the state constitution that they say could apply to proposed ballot amendment.
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Florida is one of 10 states where the Affordable Care Act's expansion of Medicaid for low-income adults has not been implemented.
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In addition to reaching the petition threshold, Floridians Protecting Freedom accomplished a requirement to meet signature thresholds in at least half of the state’s 28 congressional districts.
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Justices will take on the issue Feb. 7. Arguments will center on whether the court should approve the wording of the proposed constitutional amendment and allow it on the November ballot.
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To put the question on the ballot, 891,523 verified signatures are needed statewide by Feb. 1. As of this week, 753,694 have been verified, with hundreds of thousands in the process.
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The University of North Florida poll sampled voters across the state from Nov. 6- 26. Of the 716 registered voters who participated, 277 were completed via telephone and 439 online.
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The proposed constitutional amendment would bar laws that restrict abortion “before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s health care provider.”
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The political committee Floridians Protecting Freedom must submit at least 891,523 valid petition signatures to get an amendment aimed at ensuring abortion rights on the 2024 ballot.
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Abortion rights supporters have collected nearly half a million petition signatures for their campaign to place the issue before voters on the 2024 ballot.
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Attorney General Ashley Moody filed a brief urging the Florida Supreme Court to reject a proposed amendment, arguing the ballot summary would be “misleading to voters in several key respects.”