Florida Ballot Initiative Would Make Abortion, Birth Control Punishable by Death
“These types of extreme proposals are wildly unpopular with the public and have failed every single time they have been put before voters,” Amanda Allen, senior state legislative counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, told Broadly. “It’s blatantly unconstitutional and shows the true colors of abortion opponents: to punish some who need reproductive health care.”
Florida anti-choice activists have launched a campaign to amend the state’s constitution to ban abortion care and classify the procedure as first-degree murder, which under state law is punishable by the death penalty.The measure would not only make a pregnant person seeking an abortion and the physician performing the procedure eligible for the death penalty, but people who use any number of birth control methods would conceivably be subject to execution by the state.
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