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Wade were overturned, and the federal protection of abortion rights is withdrawn, the right would still be allowed within Kansas, barring a change in the state constitution. [81] A proposed constitutional amendment that would have superseded this ruling was decisively rejected by voters on August 2, 2022, [ 82 ] six weeks after Roe was ...
Seven of the 10 states that sought to enshrine reproductive freedoms in the 2024 elections prevailed, and in some cases, the new constitutional amendments will overrule existing abortion bans
Most of these ballot initiatives would either have allowed for abortion up until fetal viability, which is around 24 weeks, or enshrined abortion rights in the state’s constitution. Other states ...
Voters will decide on 10 ballot measures that would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution this fall after the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
In some states, these numbers can be tremendously different, for example in Missouri, a state very hostile to abortion rights, the abortion rate by state of occurrence dropped from 4 in 1000 women aged 15–44 for 2017 to 0.1 for 2020, because 57% of abortion recipients went out of state in 2017, while 99% did so in 2020. [319]
During the 2024 election cycle, several states had measures on the ballot regarding abortion access: Some expanded rights and protections, while others reinforced already-strict policies in place.
Abortion in Michigan is legal throughout pregnancy. [1] [2] A state constitutional amendment to explicitly guarantee abortion rights was placed on the ballot in 2022 as Michigan Proposal 22–3; [3] it passed with 57 percent of the vote, adding the right to abortion and contraceptive use to the Michigan Constitution. [4]
BALLOT INITIATIVE: The constitutional amendment on the ballot as Question 1 wouldn’t just preserve abortion rights, it would also guarantee “the right to reproductive freedom.” The amendment ...