Florida was one of 10 states on Election Day with a measure on the ballot to protect access to abortion, with the majority of the measures seeking to amend efforts passed in Republican-led states, whose leaders moved to restrict abortion in the wake of the ...

MIAMI - Florida's six-week abortion ban will remain law after voters rejected Amendment 4, a measure that would have enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution. The amendment failed to reach the 60% threshold needed to pass, garnering only 57% of the vote.

Florida’s voters were asked whether the state’s constitution should say that “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.”