"We always say near-total ban or extreme ban, never the actual week mark," Perez said of the abortion law. That's because most voters don't understand that six weeks into pregnancy is just two weeks after a missed period, before many people know they're pregnant. Talking about a specific number of weeks will get you into the territory of 'Oh, what amount of weeks is OK vs. not?' Like a negotiation, that's just a road you don't want to go down."
"If it passes this November, Amendment 4 would enshrine in the Florida Constitution the right to an abortion until fetal viability, with exceptions beyond that point for the patient's health-standards that replicate the protections all Americans had under Roe v. Wade."
"Since the beginning of August, Perez has been educating her fellow students about the amendment and recruiting volunteers on campus, part of an outreach effort that includes a dozen student organizers at 10 universities across the state. FPF is spending more than $1 million on college programs alone, going all in on the bet that young voters-strongly pro-choice, but with a lot of room for improvement in Election Day turnout-can swing the election in favor of abortion rights if they know that the issue is on the ballot."
"Perez had recruited her eight volunteers that Saturday by individually texting every single person on the membership rolls of the College Democrats and a campus pro-choice group. Several had never been involved in activism before but were engaged by the urgency of the issue and her commitment to making change."
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