Florida

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1) The parental notification and/or consent for a minor's abortion is already in the state constitution and this proposed amendment will leave that intact. The voters of Florida chose to give the legislature power to require parental notice 20 years ago so I think that's the compromise.

I think you should take that part out of your consideration. This amendment will have no effect on the state being able to regulate abortions for minors.

2) We don't have any other recourse. We lost the one shield we had on abortion, the Florida Supreme Court. We're all assuming the Florida Supreme Court will overturn its abortion precedent. They're going to say that the right to privacy in the state constitution does not extend to a decision to get an abortion. This amendment gives the people of Florida some recourse because we're going to be stuck with anti-abortion Republicans in charge of the state government for the foreseeable future.

You have to keep in mind that Florida has moved to the right and we need 60% of the vote, so we have to rely on "conservatives" more than other states to vote for this in order for it to pass. This gets the state of Florida back to where we were pre-Dobbs. There had to be some compromise, like keeping parental notice requirements intact.