Is abortion a right that should be enshrined in state constitutions? That very question has been put to voters in several states such as Kansas and Michigan. Now, Floridians have the opportunity next week to have a say on this issue. They should vote “No” on a ballot measure known as Amendment 4.

The Ballot Summary is as follows:

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. This amendment does not change the Legislature’s constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion.

Here are two important questions that conscientious voters should ask themselves:

1) What is “viability”?

Right now, Florida has a six-week abortion ban — a declaration that when a fetus has a heartbeat, the preborn baby is viable. Do the ballot measure authors mean 24 weeks, the age at which most agree that a baby can be born and survive outside the womb? If so, this still seems arbitrary and doesn’t account for the continuing improvements in NICU care. This author personally has a relative who was born at 22 weeks. That kid is a thriving toddler today.

2) What does “protect the patient’s health” mean?

Does it mean mental health? Physical health? (More on this point later).

Amendment 4 is intentionally vague so as to provide as many legal outs as possible for those seeking an abortion.

The pro-abortion group Floridians Protecting Freedom — in addition to suing Governor Ron DeSantis for having his Agency for Health Care Administration put up a website with facts arguing against Amendment 4 — is running an ad campaign that is so controversial that the Florida Department of Health tried to take legal action to stop it.

This is one of the ads in question:

The mother being showcased has a tumor, but like the wording of the amendment itself, the language in the ad is purposefully vague and meant to pull on the heartstrings.

Not to be cruel, but several key details are missing from the ad. For starters, how far along is this mother in her pregnancy? Frankly, if she’s far enough along, the baby could have been born early and the mother’s tumor treated.

More importantly, there are abortion exceptions for cases such as this, where the life of the mother is in jeopardy.

Circling back to protecting the patient’s health, that’s currently Florida state law and applies to all nine months of pregnancy. If a doctor refuses for fear of retribution, that is medical malpractice. Even the leftist Tallahassee Democrat paper admitted as much.

Next week’s election is really a battle for the hearts and minds of Sunshine State residents. The heartening thing about Florida is that for a ballot measure to pass, 60% or more of the voters have to approve it — none of this 50%-plus-one nonsense (looking at you, Michigan).

Is there a chance that this amendment could pass in increasingly deep-red Florida? We’ll find out next Tuesday, though, encouragingly, polling suggests it will fall short by roughly six percentage points.

Time and time again, pro-abortion advocates use vague language and flat-out disinformation to try to enshrine abortion. Amendment 4 is yet another example. If you live in Florida, please vote “No.” You are saving the lives of mothers and their preborn babies.