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Super Bowl champion caput manager Tony Dungy took a triumph thigh connected Tuesday nighttime aft a Florida termination amendment failed to get capable enactment to pass.
The measurement needed a 60% supermajority to pass, the highest threshold successful the country. It failed aft 43% voted "No" and 57% voted "Yes."
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NBC Sports broadcaster Tony Dungy looks connected during the crippled betwixt the Los Angeles Chargers and the Buffalo Bills astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood, California, connected Dec. 23, 2023. (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports)
Dungy, who was against the amendment, cheered its failure. The erstwhile Indianapolis Colts and Tampa Bay Buccaneers caput manager besides praised voters for not passing Amendment 3, which would person legalized marijuana.
"The polls are closed successful Florida and Amendment 3 and Amendment 4 some failed to pass," helium wrote connected X.
"Thank you to each the Florida residents who helped to support the lives of the unborn. And we privation radical to recognize that those expectant mothers who request assistance volition inactive beryllium capable to get it. Pregnant women with wellness risks tin get treatment. The exceptions for rape and incest are inactive successful place. But this is simply a triumph for babies."
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NBC Sports commentator and erstwhile NFL caput manager Tony Dungy connected the aerial earlier a crippled betwixt the Buffalo Bills and the Green Bay Packers astatine Highmark Stadium successful Orchard Park, New York, connected Oct. 30, 2022. (Mark Konezny-USA TODAY Sports)
Florida's termination prohibition was a contentious taxable successful the once-swing-state, with proponents of the amendment arguing that the Sunshine State's existent six-week termination prohibition is excessively restrictive aft it was implemented successful May.
The amendment's connection stated, "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."
Florida is 1 of the 9 states with a measurement connected the Nov. 5 ballot to protect entree to abortion. While Florida needed astatine slightest 60% endorsement of the initiative, each different states request a elemental bulk to pass.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis waves from the signifier connected Day 2 of the Republican National Convention astatine the Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee connected July 16, 2024. (REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz)
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The bulk of these ballot measures question to amend efforts passed successful Republican-led states, whose leaders moved to restrict termination successful the aftermath of the Supreme Court's June 2022 determination connected Roe.
Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
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