‘By locking arms now, we can halt this tragedy in Florida forever.’
(LifeSiteNews) — Pro-life Floridians are collecting signatures for a ballot initiative to amend the Sunshine State’s Constitution to explicitly recognize “The right to life of the preborn individual is God-given, thus unalienable and recognized accordingly. Therefore, it shall not be infringed at any stage of development.”
“The idea is to amend the Florida state constitution to protect the unborn as persons, thereby prohibiting abortion from conception,” Cyrille Velasco, a volunteer from Protect Human Life Florida, told LifeSiteNews via email.
“By February 2024, across the state 891,589 signatures are needed to get the proposed amendment on the ballot that November, then 60% of voters must approve the proposition; it would then go into effect immediately.”
Unlike its peer red states, Florida has only banned abortions after 15 weeks. Most babies are aborted during the first trimester of pregnancy.
According to the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), “Florida’s abortion rate remains well above the national rate” and in 2021 was…
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