Floridians voted on an amendment to their constitution that read: “… 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” (italics added). The amendment failed to reach the 60% threshold required for a constitutional amendment. However, 57% of Florida voters supported the amendment. There are two Trojan horses in the amendment. 

A Trojan Horse is a trick or strategy that causes something to appear benign or even good, and therefore be accepted and welcomed, while in reality it is deadly and brings defeat. As a result of the Dobbs decision in 2022, abortion is now largely a state issue being decided by laws passed by locally elected officials or by voters in the case of a constitutional amendment. Some of those laws and amendments include Trojan horse words.

Ten states had abortion on their ballot Nov. 5, 2024: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Nevada and South Dakota.  In Virginia, a Democrat-led House of Delegates Panel has just approved sending a radical abortion Constitutional amendment (HR1) to the full House when it convenes in January. Virginia requires a lengthy legislative process for amendments, so it would be years before it potentially could reach the voters.  It demonstrates however, that abortion is now a local issue.

Every voter needs to be informed and aware of the deceptions being promoted by abortion advocates. Floridians voted on an amendment to their constitution that read: “… 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” (italics added). The amendment failed to reach the 60% threshold required for a constitutional amendment. However, 57% of Florida voters supported the amendment.

There are two Trojan horses in the amendment. Some Florida voters may have assumed that the amendment allowed abortion, without restrictions, up until about week 24 of gestation, and after 24 weeks only if a mother’s dire health issues required it. The first Trojan horse is that “viability” does not reference gestational age. According to Webster’s dictionary, “viability” means “having attained such form and development of organs as to be normally capable of surviving outside the uterus.” People might assume that corresponds to the gestational age of 24-26 weeks. It does not. No baby can “survive outside the uterus” without support, and some babies require medical support. All require parental support to feed and care for the child. Therefore, an amendment or law that permits abortion until the baby can “survive outside the uterus,” can be interpreted as abortion throughout the 9 months.

There is a second Trojan Horse is, “Patient’s [mother’s] health.” Some people may assume that means terminating the pregnancy in order to resolve a life-threatening issue. It does not.  The word “health” in the abortion context was defined by the Supreme Court in the companion case to Roe v. Wade,  Doe v. Bolton , 1973, where the Court declared “medical judgment may be exercised in light of all factors — physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age — relevant to the well-being of the patient.
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