Voters in seven states – Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada and New York – passed pro-abortion ballot initiatives at the polls this week. About a fifth of abortions in the US – an average of about 19,000 each month – occur in ...
The abortion rights movement won in many states — even some that voted for Donald Trump. Where does it go from here?
In the days after the election, reproductive rights advocates considered next steps. Strategy discussions included everything from legislative efforts, to legal options, to rallying around
Voters across seven states approved ballot measures to safeguard abortion rights through their state constitutions, a result that could soon bolster reproductive health care for more than 2 million American women.
Republicans, eyeing such a close result, will try to overturn the state’s new right to abortion. It’s just a question of how.
The group declined to release details about what, specifically, they will seek to undo. But abortion rights advocates are bracing for further abortion restrictions once Trump takes office. And some women are, too, with online abortion pill orders spiking in the days after Election Day.
It’s plausible, but the evidence suggests Democrats’ failure to win the messaging battle played a bigger role.
Voters seemed willing to back both state referenda enshrining reproductive rights and the candidate whose Supreme Court appointees overturned Roe.
Voters in 7 out of 10 states, including several red states, approved measures to protect abortion rights during the 2024 presidential election.
Americans voted to protect abortion access in seven states, but support for those measures outpaced support for Kamala Harris, who made abortion rights central to her campaign.
At a Thursday night rally, advocates told attendees the work "has only just begun" to bring abortion back to Missouri.
Voters in seven states restored, protected, or expanded the right to abortion care in their state. Many of them also voted for the man who ended Roe v. Wade. After Roe was overturned, the Arizona Supreme Court revived an 1864 ban on abortion in the state.