7 states vote to protect abortion rights, 3 keep restrictions in place

Ten states voted straight on abortion-related measures Tuesday, with termination advocates claiming 7 victories.

Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Nevada and South Dakota all went to the polls connected the contented with the bulk of the ballot measures seeking to amend efforts passed successful Republican-led states, whose leaders moved to restrict termination successful the aftermath of the Supreme Court's June 2022 determination to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Voters in Missouri cleared the mode to undo the state's near-total ban, 1 of the nation’s tightest restrictions, with an amendment that would let lawmakers to restrict abortions past the constituent of a fetus’ viability – usually considered aft 21 weeks, though determination is nary nonstop defined clip frame.

Abortion rights amendments besides passed in Arizona, Colorado and Maryland and Montana, per The Associated Press. Montana voted to amend the authorities constitution to "expressly supply a close to marque and transportation retired decisions astir one’s ain pregnancy, including the close to abortion."

ABORTION 'ON THE BALLOT' IN 10 STATES THIS ELECTION, BUT IT MIGHT NOT MATTER

People astatine ann predetermination nighttime ticker enactment respond aft an termination rights amendment to the authorities constitution passed connected Nov. 5, 2024, successful Kansas City, Missouri. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Nevada voters besides approved an amendment, but they’ll request to walk it again successful 2026 for it to instrumentality effect. 

Another measure, which bans favoritism connected the ground of "pregnancy outcomes," prevailed in New York. It does not incorporate the connection "abortion," but alternatively bans favoritism connected the ground of "pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy."

In Arizona, voters were asked to amend the authorities constitution to let abortions done the 24-week mark. The measurement enshrines a "fundamental right" to termination earlier fetal viability, erstwhile a fetus has a "significant likelihood" of surviving extracurricular the uterus.

The amendment replaces the existent instrumentality that bans termination aft the archetypal 15 weeks of pregnancy.

A long-dormant 1864 law, which predated Arizona's statehood, had gone into effect successful the Grand Canyon State aft the repeal of Roe vs. Wade successful 2022, thrusting the contented into the spotlight and starring to Tuesday’s vote. The instrumentality had nary exceptions for rape and incest, lone for the beingness of the mother, and was repealed successful September.

DESANTIS CLAIMS VICTORY OVER FLORIDA ABORTION, MARIJUANA AMENDMENTS AS SUPPORTERS CELEBRATE: 'PRAISE GOD'

Gov. Ron DeSantis speaking astir Amendment 4 astatine the Grove Bible Chapel successful Winter Garden, Florida, connected Oct. 22, 2024. (WOFL)

Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota defeated akin law amendments, leaving existing restrictions successful place.

Florida, location to much than 13 cardinal registered voters, was the astir populous authorities deciding connected termination measures. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis past twelvemonth signed into instrumentality the Heartbeat Protection Act, which restricts astir abortions aft six weeks of gestation. 

This year, Florida residents voted connected Amendment 4, the Right to Abortion Initiative, which aimed to overturn that instrumentality by prohibiting measures that restrict termination earlier viability. In Florida, law amendments indispensable get 60% of the vote, not a elemental majority, to pass. Amendment 4 received bulk enactment among voters but failed to conscionable the 60% threshold.

South Dakota voters’ decision of its termination measurement prevents immoderate regulations related to the wellness of the pistillate aft 12 weeks. The Mount Rushmore State presently has a prohibition connected termination passim gestation with immoderate exceptions.

Ten states voted straight on abortion-related measures Tuesday with termination advocates claiming 7 victories. (AP)

Nebraska passed a ballot amendment prohibiting termination beyond the archetypal 3 months of pregnancy.

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Tuesday’s results ended a triumph streak for abortion-rights advocates who had prevailed on each 7 measures that person appeared connected statewide ballots since the autumn of Roe.

A Fox News canvass conducted this twelvemonth recovered that a record-high fig of voters present accidental they support legalizing termination successful immoderate form, including two-thirds who said they supported a nationwide instrumentality that would warrant termination entree for women.

Fifty-nine percent said they judge termination should beryllium ineligible successful "all oregon astir cases," up from the erstwhile precocious of 57% successful September 2022. 

Fox News’ Danielle Wallace, Breanne Deppisch, Emma Colton and the Associated Press contributed to this report.