'Abortion rights are deeply popular': Voters back reproductive freedom in state ballot initiatives

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : I mean, this is absolutely incredible, early in the evening results coming in that Vermont has enshrined not just the right to abortion but the sweeping right to personal reproductive autonomy into their state constitution.
46% : Meanwhile, Protect Kentucky Access, which worked to defeat Kentucky's proposed anti-abortion amendment, called the win "historic" and said in a statement, quote, "Not only does it represent a win against government overreach and government interference in the people of Kentucky's personal medical decisions, it represents the first time so many different organizations have come together with such an intense single-minded purpose to defeat a threat of this magnitude," unquote.
45% : Voters supported the right to abortion in at least four of the five states where reproductive rights were on the ballot in Tuesday's midterm elections.
39% : In at least four of the five states where reproductive rights were on the ballot, voters supported protecting the right to abortion and rejected new restrictions.
39% : And, you know, it's early on, but I would predict, because abortion is such a popular issue, I think Michigan and California, the other two states, are likely to pass these similar measures to enshrine this robust right to reproductive autonomy into their state constitutions.
38% : -- has on the ballot an anti-abortion measure, similar to the one that we saw in Kansas over the summer, that would sort of make permanent the existing abortion ban in the state by saying there is no right to abortion in the Kentucky state Constitution.
37% : Abortion rights activists protest outside the US Supreme Court on June 30, 2022, days after it overturned the nationwide right to abortion

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