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Amendment 4 eliminates parental rights to decide for a child and eliminates all abortion restrictions. Most pro-choice people want some limits. The lawyer-speak is intended to deceive.
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It doesn't do that. Here's the entire text:
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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. This amendment does not change the Legislature's constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion.
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As you can see, it's in plain English, and is only two sentences. It included verbiage regarding parental notification.
Most pro-choice advocates (such as myself) are not looking for restrictions. In the State of Florida, there were exactly ZERO abortions performed on women in their third trimester for the years that Roe v. Wade was active. Most women in their 3rd trimester would more likely undergo a cesarean birth if medically safe for the woman, as long as the fetus was still viable. If the fetus isn't viable by the third trimester, then it doesn't matter how it's removed from the womb, it's not viable and is either already dead, or will die shortly after it's born. Women in their 3rd trimester - are in that 3rd trimester because they have CHOSEN to have their babies. They have chosen to NOT get an abortion. If they're in the 3rd trimester and end up needing an abortion, it's because their life is in danger if they don't.
I'm 100% in favor of saving the mother and sacrificing the unborn. That's how I was raised, my religion (Judaism) actually demands it. You always try to save the unborn. UNLESS the mother's life is in danger. Then you save the mother. Why? Because the mother has already proven that she can reproduce. The unborn has proven only that it has the potential to kill the fertile mother.