Florida Supreme Court Weighs Validity of Proposed Abortion Amendment

The Florida Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Feb. 7 both for and against placing a constitutional amendment on the ballot that would grant a right to abortion through fetal “viability,” and in some cases, through birth. The amendment’s sponsor, Floridians Protecting Freedom, has already collected enough signatures to get the measure on the ballot in November. But at the request of Republican Attorney General Ashley Moody, the court is now set to decide if the amendment’s language is deceptively broad. “I don’t think the ballot summary adequately discloses that potentiality,” argued Nathan Forrester, Florida’s senior deputy solicitor general, before the court. “Some voters may suss it out. Other voters will not.”...