Value life by voting no on Measure 4
If I were to ask you which presidential candidate would receive your vote, I would wager that an answer would immediately come to your mind. However, did you know that on Nov. 5, Floridians will also be voting on six ballot measures? I recommend that you be as educated on these ballot measures as you are on the presidential candidates. The outcome of one ballot measure, Ballot Measure 4, is an actual life or death vote. How will you vote? I urge you to vote No.
Titled “Right to Abortion Initiative,” Ballot Measure 4, if passed, will establish a constitutional “right” in the Florida State Constitution to an abortion “before fetal viability.” However, “viability” is not defined in the measure, meaning abortions would be allowed to occur up until the point of birth. It would override parental consent, and repeal all limitations and regulations on abortion.
Current state law in Florida already permits abortion up until six weeks of pregnancy. Shouldn’t that be enough? It’s time for Florida to stand for life. Please join me by voting No on Ballot Measure 4.
Brenda Karlin
St. George Island
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.