Ballots will warn voters Amendment 4 could require Florida taxpayers to subsidize elective abortions

Press release from Vote No on 4 Florida

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Supreme Court of Florida approved a financial impact statement that will appear on the ballot with Amendment 4. This statement informs voters that Amendment 4 could force Florida taxpayers to subsidize elective abortions and would allow abortions to be performed on minors without their parents’ consent. The ruling is a victory for the truth and a blow to the dark-money groups pushing Amendment 4, counting on lawfare and deception to mislead Florida voters. 

“The Florida Supreme Court made the right decision by approving the financial impact statement that will appear on the ballot with Amendment 4,” said Sara Johnson, Vote No on 4 Statewide Grassroots Director. “This statement advises voters that Amendment 4 could result in taxpayer-funded abortions and would allow abortions to be performed on minors without a parent’s consent – information that Florida voters deserve to know and that the extremists who wrote Amendment 4 are attempting to hide.”

When voters complete their ballots this fall, this statement will inform them that Amendment 4 would open the door to forcing Florida taxpayers to fund elective abortions – and would violate parents’ rights by allowing any provider to perform a risky surgical procedure on a child without parental consent. These are just some facts that the dark-money groups bankrolling Amendment 4 were desperate to keep secret from Floridians. 

Activist groups like the ACLU have fought in court to mislead Florida voters by attempting the same devious bait-and-switch they pulled off in Michigan, which passed a similar amendment in 2022. At the time, Michigan voters had no idea that their own tax dollars could be used to fund abortions because the amendment language did not warn them of that possibility. 

But just a few weeks ago, the ACLU – which drafted and defended both Michigan’s 2022 abortion amendment and Florida’s Amendment 4 – sued Michigan to compel the state to force all taxpayers to pay for abortions through Medicaid. 

Make no mistake, the same ACLU lawyers would immediately file the same lawsuit in Florida if Amendment 4 passes. Amendment 4’s radical funders want to keep voters in the dark about their real end-game: Forcing Florida taxpayers to pay for elective abortions, even on minors whose parents do not consent. 

At only 34 words, Amendment 4 provides no definitions for any of its operative terms, creating enormous loopholes and entry points for inevitable lawsuits. But today’s court ruling dealt a blow to the deceptive wordplay and costly lawfare on which the Amendment 4 campaign was built. 

For more information on how Amendment 4 was deliberately written to deceive voters, visit www.VoteNoOn4Florida.com.