JACKSONVILLE, FL - Liberty Counsel's Assistant Vice President of Legal Affairs, Roger Gannam, will testify and present a brief today at the public meeting of the Florida Constitution Revision Commission (CRC), urging amendment of article I, sec. 23 of the Florida Constitution to clarify that it does not include a right to abortion. Liberty Counsel prepared an amicus brief in support of amending article I, sec. 23 to clarify that it was intended to apply strictly to protect citizens from government intrusion into their private data and information. The privacy provision, adopted by amendment in 1980 to protect informational privacy, arose out of the post-Watergate-era regarding the collection of personal information. All the testimony proposing the amendment clearly centered around the need to protect personal information. No one ever suggested this provision could apply to abortion. Beginning in 1989, the Florida Supreme Court redefined the right of informational privacy to create a right of abortion. The Court has continued to expand its rulings so that even parental consent and 24-hour waiting periods have been invalidated.

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