Vote No on 4 campaign launches to defeat the deceptive and extreme Amendment 4
Press release from Vote No on 4 Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today, Vote No On 4 Florida formally launched its multilingual campaign to defeat Amendment 4 on the upcoming November ballot with the unveiling of new websites in both English and Spanish and the rollout of its first campaign video entitled “Not What it Seems,” which exposes the deceptive nature and extreme ramifications of Amendment 4. The 2-minute video reveals that while other amendments provide clear definitions, the 34-word Amendment 4 fails to define any of its terms, including crucial words like “viability,” “healthcare provider,” and “patient’s health,” leaving voters in the dark about its true impact.
“Amendment 4 was deceptively written to allow abortions throughout the entire pregnancy, even when the baby can feel the pain of the procedure, and to make abortion the only medical procedure that can be performed on a minor without a parent’s consent,” said Vote No On 4 Florida President Dr. Mary J. O’Sullivan, Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Miami Medical School. “By allowing any so-called ‘healthcare provider’ – not just doctors – to determine fetal viability and approve late-term abortions, Amendment 4 essentially gives abortion clinics a rubber stamp to approve abortions in the third trimester, up to and including the last month of pregnancy.”
The Vote No On 4 Florida campaign is gaining momentum with strong grassroots support and is mobilizing thousands of Floridians across the state, with county organizers assembling a grassroots network throughout Florida that is currently capable of reaching nearly 80% of the Florida electorate. These volunteers will campaign throughout Florida to inform voters that Amendment 4 is “way too extreme, and not what it seems.”
In contrast, Amendment 4 is being heavily bankrolled by out-of-state special interest groups, including the abortion industry and George Soros’ Open Society Fund, which support abortion at any time during pregnancy. Outrageously, Amendment 4’s primary funding organization once lobbied against a bill to require emergency medical treatment for babies born alive during an abortion procedure. Thankfully, that bill passed the Florida legislature unanimously, despite the lobbying efforts of Amendment 4’s lead financial and political backer.
For information on how to get involved, visit www.VoteNoOn4Florida.com.
AGAIN STOP THE MISINFORMATION… THERE IS NO 3RD TRIMESTER ABORTIONS.. THATS LEGALLY MURDER…NO DOC IN THE LAND CAN ACTUALLY DO THAT.. ONLY EXTREMELY RARE SITUATIONS DOES A ABORTION HAPPEN PAST 😕 THAT TIME UNLESS THE MOTHER IS GONNA LOSE HER LIFE AS WELL AS THE BABY.. USING FEAR MONGERING 😨 TO WHIP A UNINFORMED VOTER IN A PANIC
You don’t cite any reference for your assertion. Just because you think this can’t happen now doesn’t mean that putting a right to an abortion into the state’s constitution would not lead to a right to abortion at any point. All a woman would need would be for an undefined “healthcare provider” to say it’s necessary. That could be a chiropractor, pharmacist, or someone who works at the reception desk at Planned Parenthood. Read the language in the amendment – it says viability OR the recommendation of a “healthcare provider.” No limits.
No.
In the United States, the law defines a healthcare provider as a “doctor of medicine or osteopathy who is authorized to practice medicine or surgery” by the state, or anyone else designated by the United States Secretary of Labor as being able to provide health care services.
In the meantime, refusing abortions in the rare cases Free Speech sites has forced woman to birth fetuses with hours or days of painful existence before dying. This is real and cases like that are the ones demagogues trying to force their religious and moral beliefs on everyone else use to try and pretend that mother and doctor are zombie ghouls.
Mind your own business!
Where does your definition of “healthcare provider” come from? Because “you said so?” Typical radical left, throwing crap on the wall, acting indignant, and shout down anyone with a different opinion!
Here is what UC Berkley says:
https://hr.berkeley.edu/node/3777
National Cancer Institute:
https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/health-care-provider
VeryWell Health:
https://www.verywellhealth.com/what-is-a-provider-1738759
National Archives Records and Administration:
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/subtitle-B/chapter-V/subchapter-C/part-825/subpart-A/section-825.125
You mind your own business!
Your quotes confirm my definition and does not include “someone who works at the reception desk at Planned Parenthood.” as alleged by Paula.
I’m happy to mind my own business and you can bank on me not trying to make laws forcing you to have or not have an abortion. Now, you do the same please.
Your response to Paula: “In the United States, the law defines a healthcare provider as a “doctor of medicine or osteopathy who is authorized to practice medicine or surgery” by the state, or anyone else designated by the United States Secretary of Labor as being able to provide health care services.”
You conveniently cut your “definition” off before getting to anything fitting Paula’s concern! Here is the entire definition of Healthcare Provider from UC Berkley (one of your own liberal production plants):
From UC Berkley (https://hr.berkeley.edu/node/3777):
“Under federal regulations, a “health care provider” is defined as: a doctor of medicine or osteopathy, podiatrist, dentist, chiropractor, clinical psychologist, optometrist, nurse practitioner, nurse-midwife, or a clinical social worker who is authorized to practice by the State and performing within the scope of their practice as defined by State law, or a Christian Science practitioner. A health care provider also is any provider from whom the University or the employee’s group health plan will accept medical certification to substantiate a claim for benefits.”
Oops, That last sentence could certainly include a Help Desk at Planned Parenthood! Anyone wanting to kill babies because it is “inconvenient” for them to have a child at this time should sew their v***na shut, cut off their p**N*s, or try what the saxophone playing Bill Clinton told Monika Lewinsky to do!
Please take a sharp knife, go play in the middle of W. University Avenue, and count the cars until you are run over by a PedoJoe supporter!
A help desk employee is not a “health care provider” nor do they have “medical certification”.
Other than that, don’t type until you’ve had your medication, and hopefully your stupid admonitions will just remain advice you give your family members and not the law of the land.
Remember, we are supposedly the free state of Florida, which means we leave the difficult and big personal decisions to citizens, not the Governor.
My Granddaughter had a prenatal STROKE, it really messed her up, there is a legal term for her condition, but, I can never remember it. Thank GOD, my Son and Daughter-in-law, knowing this in advance, did not elect to abort her Life, she is the Sweetest, well mannered little girl that you would ever care to know. My wife and I take care of her a lot and have never regretted a moment of her life, she is 29 years old this month, and, I thank GOD for her every day of my life.
Too bad Soros’ mom didn’t take an avenue outlined in an earlier opinion piece.
This is not an endorsement for abortion, just a statement that there are some people in this country who that if they weren’t, we could have done much better.
Well, can abortion be retroactively applied to its proponents since they are so adamant about it?
Jennifer, it would seem reasonable that you have the right to edit press release titles which are misleading and/or argumentative, as this one is.
Vote YES on 4.
What does the term ‘viability’ mean, in weeks or months?
Murderer’s will look for subtle ways to commit there crimes, and they are well schooled in avoiding guilt.
I am hopeful that after all the propaganda that was foisted on us during the pandemic, that voters are more skeptical of vague wording like this terrible amendment on the ballot.
Babies are precious. Babies are little humans, and just because we can’t see them yet in the womb, they are no less people than any of the rest of us.
As a woman, I am pro-baby, pro-woman, and pro-life. Abortion is not a reasonable response to a crisis pregnancy. Killing an infant in the womb is a tragic choice that many women who feel trapped in a moment of panic regret later.
Let’s come alongside women and babies – death for the little one is not a neutral, moral choice. It’s a terrible, oppressive, violent act.
I will vote NO on 4.
Thanks so much for covering this deceptive and extreme amendment.
Where Soros is involved, nothing good will come of it. Evil, pure evil he is!
Yeah, thank God he’s the only billionaire funding favored candidates and movements in the US, and of course that means none of them are on the right bankrolling criminals and lowlife scum like Trump.
If you don’t like billionaires funding our elections and choosing our candidates, remember Republicans and their appointed SC justices made this legal in the Citizen’s United case. Now their newer SC appointees have just given presidents the power to use their power like kings and with no repercussions for unlawful behavior regardless of intent as long as they use underlings in the executive branch, in which case that behavior is defined as “official duties”.
Nice huh? If you go along with those 2 decisions your dumber than sheep.
This bill wants to legalize abortion up to 24 weeks (~ 6 months), vs the current limit of 6 weeks (~1.5 months)
It is supported by Joe Biden, the Democratic Party, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and various pro-abortion groups.
It is opposed by our governor Ron DeSantis, the Republican Party, various faith-based and secular pro-life groups, and the majority of Florida voters.
It is supported by the majority of woman and Americans.
Views on abortion, 1995-2024
While public support for legal abortion has fluctuated somewhat in two decades of polling, it has remained relatively stable over the past several years. Currently, 63% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 36% say it should be illegal in all or most cases.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-abortion/
That Amendment 4 is being heavily bankrolled by out-of-state special interest groups is a bunch of BS!
It’s going to pass and whoever doesn’t like it TOO BAD!