'Fascist': Liberal critics melt down after Florida voters reject abortion rights amendment

Liberal societal media commenters and left-wing members of the media slammed Florida voters and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis for rejecting an amendment that would person created a law close to abortion, describing its nonaccomplishment arsenic "openly fascist."

"He’s enactment everything connected it, including, arsenic you said, threats, immoderate it takes to effort to marque definite that that amendment fails utilizing the powerfulness of authorities successful a mode that is, I would say, openly fascist and precise determined," MSNBC's Joy Reid said Tuesday evening connected aerial astir Florida's Amendment 4 failing. 

DeSantis signed the Heartbeat Protection Act into instrumentality past year, which banned astir abortions aft six weeks of gestation. This year, Florida residents voted connected Amendment 4, the Right to Abortion Initiative, which worked to overturn the ban. 

In Florida, law amendments indispensable get 60% of the vote, not a elemental majority, to pass. Amendment 4 received bulk enactment among voters but failed to conscionable the 60% threshold, which sparked an onslaught of disapproval from Democrats, left-wing media outlets and pro-choice advocates. 

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican statesmanlike candidate, speaks to supporters during a caucus nighttime enactment Jan. 15, 2024, successful West Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

"Desantis’ Dirty Tricks Pay Off arsenic Florida Abortion Measure Fails," a Rolling Stone header published Tuesday evening declared. And societal media users chimed successful with expletives aimed astatine voters who rejected the ballot measure. 

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Other commenters launched expletives aimed astatine DeSantis and voters who rejected the amendment. 

"No instrumentality shall prohibit, penalize, delay, oregon restrict termination earlier viability oregon erstwhile indispensable to support the patient’s health, arsenic determined by the patient’s healthcare provider. This amendment does not alteration the Legislature’s law authorization to necessitate notification to a genitor oregon guardian earlier a insignificant has an abortion," the amendment states. 

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Republicans and spiritual leaders successful the authorities person railed against the pro-choice amendment successful the months starring up to Election Day, including DeSantis, who said the amendment perchance passing would represent "the extremity of the pro-life movement." 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis takes the signifier astatine the Republican National Convention astatine the Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee July 16, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Segar)

"If you attraction astir gathering a civilization of beingness successful this authorities oregon this country, them winning successful Florida I deliberation truly represents the extremity of the pro-life movement," DeSantis said successful September during an lawsuit astatine Jesuit High School successful Tampa, the Tampa Bay Times reported. 

"If you look astatine the authorities of Florida, we bash not person a pro-life majority," DeSantis warned. "We’ve got a large chunk, but we don’t person a majority. If lone radical that are pro-life reason it, it precise good mightiness pass."

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Catholic leaders successful the authorities had besides slammed the amendment arsenic "extremely grave" and urged each "Floridians of goodwill" to ballot against it. 

Florida residents hold successful enactment astatine an aboriginal polling precinct to formed their ballots successful local, authorities and nationalist elections successful Clearwater, Fla., Nov. 3, 2024.  (Reuters/Octavio Jones)

"We impulse each Floridians of goodwill to basal against the legalization of late-term termination and reason the termination amendment. In doing so, we volition not lone support the weakest, astir innocent, and defenseless of quality beingness among america but besides countless women passim the authorities from the harms of abortion," the Catholic bishops of Florida said successful a statement connected Amendment 4.

After its nonaccomplishment to pass, pro-life and spiritual groups celebrated the quality arsenic a monolithic triumph for the pro-life movement. 

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"The defeat of Amendment 4 successful Florida is simply a immense triumph for the full state, particularly its astir vulnerable. Proponents of Amendment 4 utilized the aforesaid playbook they person successful different states which relied connected fearmongering and disinformation backed by a backing vantage of tens of millions of out-of-state dollars," Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, said successful a statement. 

"But Floridians rejected the connection erstwhile they learned it would unfastened the floodgates for abortion, astatine immoderate time, for immoderate reason, funded by taxpayers. We are grateful to Governor Ron DeSantis, who, from the outset, led the effort to chopped done the pro-abortion run of lies and exposed the disfigured information astir Amendment 4."

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