Put Abortion
On The Ballot!
The overwhelming majority of Floridians think we should all have the freedom to make our own personal health care decisions without interference from politicians.
Despite that, politicians have again denied Floridians the right to control their own bodies and lives, approving a six-week abortion ban. It bans abortion before many people even realize they are pregnant and leaves little time to get care under Florida’s two-trip requirement. Help put these decisions back in the hands of Florida families and their doctors, not politicians.
Florida’s current 15-week ban has already had serious impacts. These are only a few of the stories.
Two friends, Anya Cook and Shanae Smith-Cunningham, coincidentally shared the horrifying experience of having their water break too early in their pregnancies. Both women’s doctors said they weren’t able induce labor to end the pregnancies, even though there was no chance their babies would survive. Instead the women were left to deal with the complications of their miscarriages on their own. Anya was forced to deliver her dead fetus alone in a bathroom at work, and she nearly died from the blood loss. Both women were subjected to unimaginable trauma and their lives were needlessly put at risk because of Florida’s abortion ban.
Deborah Dorbert and her husband were devastated when they learned that her pregnancy wasn’t viable due to a diagnosis of Potter’s syndrome. Deborah asked to terminate the pregnancy but her doctors and their lawyers declined, fearful they would run afoul of the state’s 15-week abortion ban. Without any other feasible options, she and her family spent more than three months waiting for the birth and death of her child.
Deborah Dorbert and her husband were devastated when they learned that her pregnancy wasn’t viable due to a diagnosis of Potter’s syndrome. Deborah asked to terminate the pregnancy but her doctors and their lawyers declined, fearful they would run afoul of the state’s 15-week abortion ban. Without any other feasible options, she and her family spent more than three months waiting for the birth and death of her child.
Anabely Lopes was 15-weeks along in a pregnancy she deeply wanted when testing showed her fetus had the genetic condition Trisomy 18. Her doctor explained that most babies diagnosed with the condition die before they are born or within 5 to 15 days after birth due to severe defects. Anabely had to travel from Florida to Washington to get the abortion care she needed.
About Floridians Protecting Freedom
Floridians Protecting Freedom (FPF) is a statewide campaign of allied organizations and concerned citizens working together to protect Floridians’ access to reproductive health care and defend the right to bodily autonomy. FPF recognizes that all Floridians deserve the freedom to make personal medical decisions, free of government intrusion. Our citizen-led ballot initiative, the “Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion,” seeks to further codify that right into Florida law by creating a constitutional amendment that explicitly blocks the implementation of laws that prohibit, delay, or restrict abortion access.