The 10 states where voters could decide on abortion directly

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Then, last year, faced with a Republican trifecta in state government where many lawmakers harbored anti-abortion positions, Ohio reproductive rights advocates took matters in their own hands and launched an effort to codify the right to abortion, contraception, fertility treatments, miscarriage management and pregnancy care.
54% : Americans in California, Michigan and Vermont enshrined the right to a host of reproductive health care services into their state constitutions during the midterms, while voters in Montana defeated a measure containing anti-abortion rhetoric and Kentucky voters soundly rejected an amendment seeking to declare that nothing in the state constitution guaranteed abortion rights.
51% : Abortion is only permitted in Missouri for medical emergencies.
48% : In March 2023, the Democratic-controlled Legislature voted in favor of a referendum that put the "Right to Reproductive Freedom Act" before voters this fall.
48% : Abortion is broadly legal in Maryland.
43% : Abortion is legal throughout pregnancy in Colorado, but the state enacted a ban on public funds being used for abortions in 1984.
43% : Amendment 4 would bar government interference in abortion access before fetal viability or when a provider deems the procedure necessary to save a person's health.
43% : Abortion is legal in New York up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, and abortions after that point must be approved by providers who decide whether a fetus is viable, or if a patient's life or health is at risk.
38% : Initiative 89, titled "Right to Abortion," could effectively repeal that 40-year-old coverage ban if 55% of voters approve the amendment.
38% : Abortion is illegal after six weeks in Florida with exceptions for rape, incest and to save the patient's life.
36% : Abortion is banned in South Dakota unless it's necessary to save a patient's life.
35% : Abortion is illegal after 15 weeks in Arizona, unless the patient's life is at risk.

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