An attorney for the administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has indicated that legal action is on the table following the airing of a TV ad promoting the state’s abortion access ballot initiative, Politico reported on Tuesday.
If passed, the much-debated Amendment 4 aims to limit government interference with abortion and specifies that “No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.”
The commercial in question references a woman with a terminal illness who is also carrying a child. The ad says that under the state’s current six-week abortion ban, the woman would not be able to have an abortion. “The doctors knew that if I did not end my pregnancy, I would lose my baby, I would lose my life, and my daughter would lose her mom,” the woman says in the ad. “Florida has now banned abortions, even in cases like mine.”
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