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Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, abortion rights protests were held in Annapolis [93] and Baltimore. [94] In Chevy Chase, Maryland on January 22, 2023, abortion rights protesters rallied outside of Brett Kavanaugh's home after a documentary investigating his sexual assault allegations premiered at the Sundance Film ...
During the 2023 legislative session, Jones again introduced legislation to enshrine abortion protections into the state constitution, [14] which passed, and was signed into law by Governor Wes Moore, along with a package of bills to protect patients who come to Maryland seeking abortion rights from out-of-state criminal prosecution. [15] [16]
Marion C. Bascom, civil rights leader and pastor at Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church [32] Gloria Steinem, journalist and social-political activist [41] Organizations. American Civil Liberties Union [42] Maryland League of Women Voters [43] National Abortion Rights Action League [44] Planned Parenthood of Maryland [45] Newspapers. The ...
Abortion rights advocates have prevailed on 14 of them and lost on four. In the 2024 election, they amended the constitutions in five states to add the right to abortion. Such measures failed in ...
During the 2024 elections, voters in 10 states had the opportunity to weigh in on abortion rights, through amendments that aimed to enshrine protections into their state constitutions ...
A proposed state constitutional amendment enshrining the right to reproductive freedom in Maryland has passed. Reproductive rights advocates say that the amendment will protect abortion access in ...
As in Maryland, lawmakers, not citizens, control the amendment process in New York. State legislators voted to put a measure on the ballot that would enshrine abortion rights in the state ...
Governor of Arizona Katie Hobbs and state Attorney General Kris Mayes are both supporters of abortion rights, elected in 2022 as part of a nationwide backlash to the Dobbs decision. In July 2023, Hobbs issued an executive order stripping local prosecutors of their ability to file prosecutions over the 15-week ban, or (if it had been revived in ...