State agency wades into political battle over FL's abortion-rights amendment

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration launched a webpage Thursday bashing the proposed state constitutional amendment to restore abortion access beyond six weeks, prompting Florida Democrats to call out the use of state funds against the measure.

The agency’s secretary, Jason Weida, wrote on X that the page is meant to “combat lies and disinformation surrounding Florida’s abortion laws.” However, the page states that Amendment 4 “threatens to expose women and children to health risks.”

“The Florida Legislature will lose the ability to protect basic, common-sense health care regulations due to these open-ended arbitrary terms,” the webpage declares.

Florida Democrats responded that the webpage violates Florida statutes barring state employees from using their authority to interfere with an election.



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