Voters will soon determine the fate of abortion access in a handful of states, including Michigan, which could become the first to make an abortion ban permanently unenforceable since the fall of Roe v. Wade.
Voters in three states are deciding whether to enshrine abortion rights in their state constitutions, while in Kentucky and Montana, the ballot measures seek to limit abortion access.
Five states have abortion-related questions on their ballots, the most ever, and gubernatorial and legislative races in six others will determine if abortion will be legal in those states.
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed the federal right to abortion, reproductive rights have taken center stage this election.
Voters in reliably red Kentucky rejected a ballot measure aimed at denying any state constitutional protections for abortion while voters in battleground Michigan enshrined abortion rights in their state’s constitution.
Abortion rights supporters won in the four states where access was on the ballot. Voters enshrined it into the state constitution in battleground Michigan as well as blue California and
Voters in battleground Michigan have enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution, joining reliably Democratic California and Vermont on election night. It's still too early to call an anti-abortion measure
Abortion was on the ballot in several states Tuesday, months after the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion in a decision that led to near-total bans in a
The ballot initiatives come months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion it guaranteed to women nationwide.
Voters in Michigan, Kentucky, California and Vermont were on track to back ballot measures supporting reproductive rights on Tuesday, six months after the US Supreme Court eliminated the federal right to an abortion and sent the issue back to the states.
Kentucky voters rejected a ballot measure aimed at denying any constitutional protections for abortion. Voters in Michigan enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution, joining California and Vermont in taking that step.
The outcome show that while Republican voters may want conservative candidates in office, they may not necessarily want abortion rights to be reduced further.
With more than 80 percent of the statewide vote in, support for Proposal 3, which would enshrine abortion rights in the Michigan Constitution, led 56 percent to 44 percent.
Reliably Democratic California and Vermont have voted to protect abortion rights in their state constitutions. It's too early to call an anti-abortion initiative in Kentucky, a Republican stronghold. Michigan was
The ballot initiatives come months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion it guaranteed to women nationwide.
By Veronica Stracqualursi, Devan Cole and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Voters in three states moved to protect abortion rights on Tuesday, CNN projects, following a monthslong push from Democrats nationwide to act on the issue in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade in June.
