Florida’s voters were asked whether the state’s constitution should say that “no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.”

A closely watched proposal to restore abortion rights in Florida appears to have fallen short, in a significant blow to efforts to expand local protections for the procedure.The ballot initiative would have allowed abortion until the point of foetal viability or about 24 weeks,

A Florida ballot initiative to protect abortion rights narrowly failed, the first defeat for such a measure since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. The proposal, which would have amended the state constitution,