Florida
Related: About this forumAbortion amendment supporters call ballot statement a 'dirty trick'
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/16/florida-abortion-amendment-ballot-statement-called-dirty-trick/74422824007/Financial impact statements provide estimated effects of proposed constitutional amendments on government revenues and the state budget. They usually receive little attention, but the abortion measure spurred contentious debate and divided the panel.
Representatives of Gov. Ron DeSantis office and the Florida House pushed to include information in the statement about issues such as the possibility that passage of the amendment could lead to Medicaid-funded abortions and spur a wide range of costly lawsuits. Those are issues that amendment opponents have cited as they fight the proposal.
Ultimately, with the help of the panels representative from the Florida Senate, DeSantis office and the House got information they sought into the statement.
In part, the statement says there is uncertainty about whether the amendment will require the state to subsidize abortions with public funds. Litigation to resolve those and other uncertainties will result in additional costs to the state government and state courts that will negatively impact the state budget. An increase in abortions may negatively affect the growth of state and local revenues over time. Because the fiscal impact of increased abortions on state and local revenues and costs cannot be estimated with precision, the total impact of the proposed amendment is indeterminate.
rzemanfl
(30,288 posts)Couldn't they use 50 years of experience to determine impact. No, because Repukes.
Geechie
(928 posts)Especially among lower economic classes - which are hit hardest with the risk anyway:
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/class_gaps_unintended_pregnancy_release.pdf]
Societal costs of unwanted children are incalculable.
allegorical oracle
(3,052 posts)states other than Florida to other states. When the legislature learned it was illegal, they retroactively changed the law so the gov wouldn't run into any legal problems. Corruption abounds.
Geechie
(928 posts)I knew they were corrupt, but this is next level.
tmars505
(7 posts)it's not even going to be close. People really don't like their rights taken away. Plus the statement is too long and complex that few will even bother reading it.
One other thing. the magats already lost the election, and are only making it worse for themselves.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(10,197 posts)allegorical oracle
(3,052 posts)incarceration.