Abortion Rights Ballot Measures Succeed in 7 of 10 States

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : An amendment sponsored by anti-abortion groups that bans abortion after the first trimester of pregnancy won with 55 percent.
50% : And anti-abortion activists have laid plans for a second Trump administration to use existing federal statutes to ban abortion pills, and to use the 14th Amendment to establish fetal personhood, which would effectively criminalize abortion at any stage of pregnancy.
46% : Abortion has remained broadly legal in the state since the Supreme Court overturned Roe.
41% : Planned Parenthood and other groups that supported similar amendments elsewhere declined to support South Dakota's measure because they said it did not go far enough to protect the right to abortion, and would allow the Legislature to pass so many restrictions that abortion would effectively remain inaccessible in the state.

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