Florida Voters Will Decide Abortion Access In November
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🗓️ 2 April 2024
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Summary
The Florida Supreme Court delivered bittersweet news to abortion rights advocates on Monday. In one ruling, the court gave voters the chance to enshrine abortion rights in Florida’s constitution by okaying a referendum to appear on the state ballot this November. But in a separate decision, the court also cleared the way for Florida’s six-week abortion ban to take effect in 30 days. Lauren Brenzel, campaign director for Floridians Protecting Freedom, explained the ballot initiative that now heads to voters and how the state’s impending six-week abortion ban raises the stakes.
The Israeli military on Monday ended its 14-day siege of Al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital. The Gazan Health Ministry estimated that about 3,000 people were inside the hospital when the IDF began its raid. Meanwhile, in Israel over the weekend, thousands in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv protested against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
And in headlines: A temporary shipping channel opened in the port of Baltimore, former President Donald Trump posted a $175 million dollar bond tied to his civil fraud case in New York, and Iowa defeated LSU and will head to the Final Four of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, April 2nd. I'm Juanita Tolliver. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Travel Anderson and this is what a day where we're buzzing over the news that America has an all-time record of bee colonies. |
| 0:12.8 | That's from a recent Washington Post analysis of federal data. |
| 0:16.0 | We might be turning the corner with colony collapse disorder, |
| 0:19.4 | and I think Beyoncé's new album had a little something to do with this. |
| 0:22.8 | Our Lord and Savior Beyoncly Christ always does the good good, okay? |
| 0:27.8 | On today's show, the latest from the Middle East conflict, including thousands |
| 0:35.6 | of Israeli protesters calling for the ousting of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, |
| 0:40.0 | plus we better not be getting a pandemic sequel. For the second time ever in the US |
| 0:45.4 | bird flu was detected in a human. But first we got some bittersweet news out of |
| 0:50.1 | Florida yesterday when it comes to abortion access. The good news is that the |
| 0:54.8 | state Supreme Court gave the okay for a big abortion rights initiative to appear |
| 0:59.0 | on the state ballot. It means voters will have a chance to enshrine abortion rights into the state's constitution when they head to the polls this November. |
| 1:06.0 | Okay, that's the good news. Break it to us. What's the bad news? |
| 1:10.5 | Well, in a separate decision, the Florida Supreme Court also ruled that the |
| 1:14.8 | state constitution, as it stands now, does not protect abortion rights, undoing |
| 1:19.7 | decades of legal precedent and paving the way for a six-week abortion ban to go into effect in 30 days. |
| 1:26.2 | The court said, quote, we received from our prior decisions in which relying on reasoning |
| 1:30.9 | the US Supreme Court has rejected, |
| 1:33.2 | we held that the Privacy Clause guaranteed the right |
| 1:35.7 | to receive an abortion through the end of the second trimester. |
| 1:39.0 | That's a direct nod to the US Supreme Court's decision |
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