The state's Supreme Court will act on a legal challenge that will decide the fate of abortion access.
, was “egregiously wrong from the start.”
A ruling that would eventually allow Florida to go forward with the six-week ban would help achieve long-standing goals of abortion opponents who have asserted that the privacy clause does not apply to abortion. One of the justices the governor did not appoint — Supreme Court Justice Charles Canady — is a former member of Congress who sponsored a ban on certain types of abortion procedures that was vetoed by then-President Bill Clinton. Republican state Rep. Jennifer Canady, who is married to Charles Canady, was a co-sponsor of the six-week ban and strongly defended the measure on the Florida House floor.
The group must gather nearly 900,000 signatures in order to qualify for the ballot. Organizers say they have collected roughly 240,000, though none have been officially certified by election officials. Roughly 1,300 signatures alone were collected at a recent concert in Orlando, according to Eskamani.
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