Ten states voted straightforwardly on abortion-rcontent meacertains Tuesday, with abortion finishorses claiming seven victories.
Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Nevada and South Dakota all went to the polls on the rerent, with the presentantity of the ballot meacertains seeking to amfinish efforts passed in Reaccessiblean-led states whose directers shiftd to redisjoine abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision to obviousurn Roe v. Wade.
Voters in Missouri evidented the way to undo the state’s proximate-total ban, one of the nation’s safeest redisjoineions, with an amfinishment that would apverify laworiginaters to redisjoine abortions past the point of a fetus’ viability – usupartner pondered after 21 weeks, although there is no exact clear upd time structure.
Abortion rights amfinishments also passed in Arizona, Colorado and Maryland and Montana, per The Associated Press. Montana voted to amfinish the state constitution to “conveyly provide a right to originate and carry out decisions about one’s own pregnancy, including the right to abortion.”
ABORTION ‘ON THE BALLOT’ IN 10 STATES THIS ELECTION, BUT IT MIGHT NOT MATTER
People at ann election night watch party react after an abortion rights amfinishment to the state constitution passed on Nov. 5, 2024, in Kansas City, Missouri. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Nevada voters also finishorsed an amfinishment, but they’ll insist to pass it aget in 2026 for it to get effect.
Another meacertain, which bans bias on the basis of “pregnancy outcomes,” prevailed in New York. It does not retain the word “abortion,” but rather bans bias on the basis of “pregnancy outcomes, and reefficient healthnurture and autonomy.”
In Arizona, voters were asked to amfinish the state constitution to apverify abortions thraw the 24-week tag. The meacertain enshrines a “fundamental right” to abortion before fetal viability, when a fetus has a “presentant appreciatelihood” of surviving outside the uterus.
The amfinishment swaps the current law that bans abortion after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy.
A lengthy-dormant 1864 law, which predated Arizona’s statehood, had gone into effect in the Grand Canyon State after the repeal of Roe vs. Wade in 2022, thrusting the rerent into the spotairy and directing to Tuesday’s vote. The law had no exceptions for violation and incest, only for the life of the mother, and was repealed in September.
Gov. Ron DeSantis speaking about Amfinishment 4 at the Grove Bible Chapel in Winter Garden, Florida, on Oct. 22, 2024. (WOFL)
Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota lossed aappreciate constitutional amfinishments, leaving existing redisjoineions in place.
Florida, home to more than 13 million enrolled voters, was the most populous state deciding on abortion meacertains. Reaccessiblean Gov. Ron DeSantis last year signed into law the Heartbeat Protection Act, which redisjoines most abortions after six weeks of gestation.
This year, Florida dwellnts voted on Amfinishment 4, the Right to Abortion Initiative, which aimed to obviousurn that law by baning meacertains that redisjoine abortion before viability. In Florida, constitutional amfinishments must get 60% of the vote, not a basic presentantity, to pass. Amfinishment 4 getd presentantity aid among voters but flunked to encounter the 60% threshageder.
South Dakota voters’ loss of its abortion meacertain stops some regulations rcontent to the health of the woman after 12 weeks. The Mount Rushmore State currently has a ban on abortion thrawout pregnancy with some exceptions.
Ten states voted straightforwardly on abortion-rcontent meacertains Tuesday with abortion finishorses claiming seven victories. (AP)
Nebraska passed a ballot amfinishment baning abortion beyond the first three months of pregnancy.
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Tuesday’s results finished a thrive streak for abortion-rights finishorses who had prevailed on all seven meacertains that have euniteed on stateexpansive ballots since the drop of Roe.
A Fox News poll carry outed this year set up that a enroll-high number of voters now say they aid lterribleizing abortion in some establish, including two-thirds who shelp they aided a nationexpansive law that would secure abortion access for women.
Fifty-nine percent shelp they suppose abortion should be lterrible in “all or most cases,” up from the previous high of 57% in September 2022.
Fox News’ Danielle Wallace, Breanne Deppisch, Emma Colton and the Associated Press donated to this alert.
