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ilbusca/Getty Images(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) Florida abortion rights advocates on Friday said they surpassed the required number of signatures needed to put a referendum that would enshrine abortion rights in Florida s Constitution on the state s 2024 ballot in November.
If the referendum, which needed 891,523 total verified signatures to be placed on the ballot, prevails in November, it will undo Florida s abortion ban and deliver a devastating blow to Florida Republicans, including Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has restricted access to abortion in the state.
"I m confident that something that s very, very extreme is not gonna be able to pass in Florida," he said in Cumming, Iowa, on Friday after it was announced that the measure received the requisite number of signatures.
Currently, Florida has a 15-week abortion ban that a six-week abortion ban, caught up in litigation, could replace if the state s supreme court rules it constitutional.
Abortion advocates and Democrats are cele