Florida Will Now Be Ground Zero for the Abortion Wars in 2024

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Next, by a 4-3 vote, the court allowed a ballot initiative that would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution onto November's ballot; this decision gives voters a chance to overturn the six-week ban and establish Florida as the sole haven for reproductive care in the South.
49% : Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, backed up anti-abortion activists, argued that the initiative's title -- "Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion" -- constituted "inflammatory political rhetoric" and failed to convey the impact it would have on Florida law.
45% : First, by a 6-1 vote, the conservative supermajority abolished the right to abortion under the state constitution, overruling decades of precedent in the process.
45% : DeSantis and Moody's objections to the ballot initiative on recreational marijuana were also frivolous; only Francis and Sasso could muster dissents in that case.
41% : Finally, by a 5-2 vote, the court approved another initiative that would legalize recreational marijuana in the state, rejecting DeSantis' strenuous effort to keep the question off the ballot.
22% : Pro-choice advocates gathered enough signatures to put this question on the ballot, but DeSantis' administration tried to block it by arguing that its title was somehow "misleading."

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