Abortion rights advocates plan a 2024 ballot initiative to add abortion rights to the state constitution and repeal a 1980s constitutional amendment that bans public funding for abortion. Effect of Supreme Court ruling: The decision didn’t have any immediate impact on Colorado law -- but ...
By rejecting adding abortion rights to their state constitution, Florida voters kept a ban on abortion after the first six weeks of pregnancy in place. It’s the first time abortion rights groups have lost in a statewide ballot question since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade a...
Strict laws, like full and 6-week bans on abortion are currently blocked by courts in another five states. The 2022 decision has also put abortion rights back on top of the political agenda, making it one of the key issues in the 2024 presidential election. According to a recent Economist...
Last year, voters decided to amend the state constitution to prohibit the state from denying or interfering with a woman's "reproductive freedom." Protestors demonstrate at the March for Reproductive Rights organized by Womens March L.A. on April 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama...
The races' importance was underscored recently when the Michigan Supreme Court, where Democratic appointees hold a slim majority, overruled a decision by a state certification board and allowed a constitutional amendment ensuring abortion rights on the November ballot. ...
Members of Arizona for Abortion Access, the ballot initiative to enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona state constitution, hold a press conference and protest on April 17, 2024, in Phoenix.REBECCA NOBLE / Getty Images The Arizona measure required 383,923 signatures. Organizers said in July that...
Voters in 10 states next week will be voting on abortion-related referendums. Six states have already held such votes, all of them expanding rights for pregnant women. October 28, 2024 Additional Live Streams Additional Live Streams Live
Though abortion rights supporters prevailed on ballot measures in seven of the 10 states where abortion was up for a vote on Nov. 5, the state supreme courts they've elected indicate legal fights to come aren't clear-cut.
17:27:10, March 26, 2024 Oral arguments in abortion pill case conclude From CNN's Devan Cole Abortion rights groups march outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, March 26, in Washington, DC. Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AP Oral arguments have concluded in a major Supreme Court case over ...
Many said they were motivated to vote yes by the state Supreme Court’s conservative majority voting earlier this year to uphold an 1864 near-total abortion ban, which the Legislature narrowly repealed even as most GOP lawmakers voted to keep it in place. Y...