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Abortion Rights

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Florida Supreme Court okays a controversial revised financial impact statement for the abortion rights amendment

The decision is a defeat for supporters of a proposal aimed at enshrining abortion rights in the Florida Constitution.
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The Florida battle over an abortion rights amendment financial impact statement ratchets up

The Floridians Protecting Freedom committee, says Legislative leaders did not have authority to direct a state panel to revise the statement.
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Florida Supreme Court justices get a second case challenging the abortion rights amendment’s financial impact statement

Gov. Ron DeSantis and state Republican leaders spearheaded controversial revisions in the financial impact statement.

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A court dismisses a case challenging the financial impact statement associated with Florida’s abortion rights amendment question

The court says the case is moot because the financial impact statement was revised last week.
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Florida’s abortion rights ballot initiative raises $111,000

The Floridians Protecting Freedom committee also spent $106,913 during the week-long period.
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Florida claims that the case over the abortion rights amendment financial impact statement is not moot

A state panel revamped a financial impact statement that will be on the ballot with a proposed constitutional amendment on abortion rights.
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Abortion rights groups have their request for a judge to rule on the legality of a financial impact statement rejected

Floridians Protecting Freedom called a state panel's revised financial impact statement “highly politicized and unlawfully inaccurate.”
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Could the legal case over Florida’s abortion rights financial impact statement be moot?

The Financial Impact Estimating Conference revised the statement, which will appear on the ballot with the abortion rights amendment.

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