Three Dissenting Justices Got It Right – FL Abortion Amendment “Misleads” Voters

TALLAHASSEE, FL – While the Florida Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that a deceptive proposal to codify unrestricted abortion in the state constitution could go before voters this November, three justices got it right in their dissents. They correctly argued that the proposed amendment “misleads” voters and “fails” to convey the far-reaching legal consequences if voted into law.

Justices Renatha Francis, Jamie Grosshans, and Meredith Sasso, the three women on the Court, all dissented from the majority opinion. The three dissenting justices said the language was defective in several major areas:

1. The amendment “misleads” voters by “ending (as opposed to ‘limiting’) legislative and executive action on abortion.”

Justice Francis argued the proposed amendment “hides the ball” as to its future legal ramifications. She stated the potential effects of the amendment were “fourfold” in that it would repeal all “meaningful abortion laws,” eliminate any legislative actions to protect babies before viability, subject any laws regarding post-viability abortions to a “health care provider’s veto,” and would “redefine abortion as a health issue in Florida without saying so.”

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