The states where women chose Trump over abortion rights - and why

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Or, I think that Trump is fine, he says send the issue back to the States, that's good enough for me.
55% : While Trump had previously told supporters he was "proud to be the most pro-life president in American history", he has shifted his rhetoric on the issue during the 2024 campaign trail.
51% : Exit polls show that Harris did have a 10-point advantage with women, taking 54 per cent over Trump's 44 per cent, while Trump had the same lead over Harris among men.
42% : Exit polls recorded a large swing for Trump among Catholic voters - 56 per cent vs 41 per cent for Harris.
38% : Abortion is legal up to 20 weeks, but abortion telemedicine is banned and they must have an ultrasound even if not medically necessary.
34% : Abortion is banned at 12 weeks and afterwards.
34% : Abortion is banned at 24 weeks.
34% : These voters only backed Harris 51 per cent to 47 per cent for Trump.
33% : But with Trump claiming an unexpectedly emphatic victory, the Democrats appear to have failed to mobilise the groundswell of support they hoped for on reproductive rights.
33% : Abortion is banned in Georgia after six weeks and the state is also marked "very restrictive".
33% : This indicates Trump may have benefited from recent ambiguity over his position on abortion policy.
31% : While counting continues, Trump looks set to have won all five.Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Florida, South Carolina, also deemed "hostile" to abortion, all backed the Republicans, with Kamala Harris picking up just one electoral college vote from Nebraska's second district out of the bunch.
29% : Abortion was perhaps the most polarising issue of the 2024 election, and one which Kamala Harris was relying on to return her to the White House.
29% : Kelly Baden, vice president for public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, said that abortion failed to determine the election partly because it was subsumed by other issues - such as immigration or the economy - and partly because Trump had successfully clouded his position on it.
24% : Where did it all go wrong?How did states with restrictive abortion access vote?States where abortion is effectively illegal - Idaho, South Dakota, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia, according to the Centre for Reproductive Rights - all backed Trump.
23% : The Centre for Reproductive Rights defines this as states where authorities have "expressed a desire to prohibit abortion entirely", and are "extremely vulnerable to the revival of old abortion bans or the enactment of new ones, and none of them has legal protections for abortion."As they call for Trump, despite Harris's extensive courtship, this is what their rules on the procedure are.
22% : But instead, the key swing states with restrictive abortion laws rejected Harris in favour of Trump.
17% : Harris had made the issue central to her campaign against Trump, who presided over a dramatic rollback in reproductive rights during his last stint in the White House, and was relying on women and pro-choice voters coming out in droves to support her.

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