The Florida Abortion Measure’s Failure Is an Infuriating Allegory for Women

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on and restore . But it didn’t matter.The Florida abortion measure, Amendment 4, which would have allowed abortion up to the point of fetal viability, lost anyway.

The final tally was 57 percent yes to 43 percent no. The result effectively means that a minority of voters decided the state’s future on the issue, and gave the state the distinction of becoming the first to have an abortion ballot measure fail post-Dobbs.Confusing, I know.

You’d think that an obvious and decisive percentage split like that would be a clear message on what voters wanted. But because the Florida abortion measure was an amendment to the state constitution, it needed a 60 percent threshold of votes to pass.

This statute requiring a higher majority passed in 2006, Another proposed amendment, which would have legalized marijuana, also won the popular majority on Tuesday night but failed because of the threshold.The amendment’s failure means that the state’s Heartbeat Protection Act will stay the law of the land.