Why Vote NO on 4?

Amendment 4 – the Amendment to Limit Government Interference in Abortion – states the following:

“No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider. This amendment does not change the Legislature’s constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion.”

Unlike other Amendments, Amendment 4 provides ZERO definitions of key words like “government interference”, “viability”, “health care provider”, “patient’s health” – so voters won’t even know what they’re voting on. This creates loopholes that will result in years of litigation and legal uncertainty.

Amendment 4 gives abortion clinics a rubber stamp to approve late-term, third trimester abortions. That’s because Amendment 4’s “Health Care Provider(s)” aren’t just doctors but could be any one of dozens of health-intersecting occupations licensed by the state. Even abortion clinic staffers who aren’t doctors would have the authority to decide if the baby is viable or if a health concern or complaint was significant enough to approve a full-term abortion.

Amendment 4 would make abortion the only medical procedure that minors could undergo without parental consent. Its tricky wording gives the impression that existing parental consent laws would remain in force but read it closely – it only preserves parental notification, not parental consent laws, which Amendment 4 would eliminate.

• Abortion is legal up to viability for all 
• Abortion is legal up to birth with the consent of a medical provider (not necessarily a qualified doctor)
• No parental consent is required for an abortion to be performed on a minor

Vote NO.

The Florida Heartbeat Protection Act is Florida’s current abortion law and what will continue if we vote down Amendment 4 in November.

As of May 1st, 2024, abortion in Florida is illegal past 6-weeks gestation.

Though the law is technically called the Heartbeat Protection Act, it limits abortion based on gestational age, not when a heartbeat is detected. Abortion is legal up to 6-weeks gestation. Amendment 4 will override this law.

Today, miscarriages and ectopic pregnancy care are not abortions, and women will not be denied medical care for miscarriages or ectopic pregnancy.

As of today, the abortion pill must be administered in person by a physician, outlawing the dispensing of the pill through mail. Amendment 4 will remove this barrier.

Today, exceptions to the law exist in cases of rape, incest, human trafficking, fatal fetal abnormality, or when the pregnant woman’s life is in danger.

Abortion providers administering the abortion pill or surgical abortions after 6-weeks gestation may be prosecuted, not the woman seeking an abortion.

The Bible teaches that all human life begins at the moment of conception and should be protected.

Psalm 139:13–19

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you. Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me!

Proverbs 24:10–12

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?