For abortion rights groups, the ballot strategy may be near its end. Only 17 states allow citizens to put amendments in front of voters. If the groups succeed in November, there will be only three states among those — Arkansas, North Dakota and Oklahoma — that ban abortion.
Tuesday’s presidential debate is the perfect high-stakes opportunity for moderators to press the GOP nominee on his inconsistent abortion record.
In a continuing effort to tank Florida's abortion rights ballot measure, Gov. Ron DeSantis is turning to religious groups to help rouse opposition.
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott said Donald Trump would win Florida, while DeSantis blamed George Soros for the abortion amendment.
The national debate over abortion rights is playing out in the 17th Congressional District race between Lawler and Jones.
Florida voters who signed a petition to place a pro-choice abortion referendum on the ballot this November say they have been visited by police who are investigating claims of fraud at the behest of Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration, the Tampa Bay Times reported Saturday.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, seven states have put abortion on the ballot. So far, in each of those seven states (California, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, Vermont, and Ohio) voters have sided with abortion rights supporters.
The judge said he wouldn’t order the measure removed from the ballot until Tuesday, the deadline for printing the ballots, to allow abortion rights groups to appeal.
Both Kamala Harris and Tim Walz co-sponsored the Women’s Health Protection Act — a sweeping bill to codify abortion access.
The visits appear to be part of an unusual effort by the DeSantis administration to inspect thousands of already validated petitions for Amendment 4.