Voters in states from across the political spectrum chose to enshrine abortion rights on Tuesday, a major victory for reproductive rights advocates in the first national election since the fall of Roe v. Wade.
chose to enshrine abortion rights on Tuesday, a major victory for reproductive rights advocates in the first national election since the fall of Roe v. Wade in June.
“Conventional wisdom told us for years that abortion is the most deeply partisan issue, but that’s simply not true,” said Elisabeth Smith, director of state policy and advocacy for the Center for Reproductive Rights. “I think what we see are that Americans across the political spectrum understand abortion to be a liberty issue, and a freedom issue.”
And in Montana, 52.4% of voters rejected a ballot initiative that would criminalize health care providers if they did not take “reasonable actions” to save an infant born alive, including after an attempted abortionMeanwhile, voters in two Democratic states, California and Vermont, chose to officially protect abortion rights in their constitutions. NBC News projected that, as of Wednesday afternoon, 65% of California voters and 76% of Vermont voters supported the measures.
“We didn’t know what the margins would be, and we didn’t know how quickly we would have the results,” she said.a proposed amendment that would have removed protections for reproductive rights in the state’s constitution.Abortion played a major role in midterm voters’ decisions at the ballot box.
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