Now, 10 states and counting will have measures to amend their constitutions to protect abortion rights on the ballot in November. Those states are currently Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Nevada, New York, South Dakota, Missouri, Montana, and most recently Nebraska.
Abortion has overtaken immigration to become the second most important issue for voters heading into the 2024 election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, Newsweek polling suggests.
Even if abortion isn’t directly on the ballot in Pennsylvania, the message about the stakes is reaching them in ways that consider the many intersectional identities of voters.
While money has poured into campaigns over Amendments 3 and 4, there has been less attention, including polling, on other amendments.
Vice President Kamala Harris was pressed by NBC News' Hallie Jackson whether she would make any concessions to GOP lawmakers in order to get abortion legislation passed as president.
The lawsuit is being funded by an “angel financier,” Lawson told the Times/Herald. He declined to disclose the donor’s name or provide other information about them.
Lyerly is a Democrat running for a U.S. House seat in Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District. If she succeeds, she will have to give up her medical practice. Even still, she felt that the existential threats abortion bans posed to her and other doctors’ continued ability to treat patients made the potential sacrifice worthwhile.
In another fact-check, we examined a claim by Amendment 4’s supporters that Florida’s six-week law has "no real exceptions. Not for her health. Not even for rape." The exceptions for rape, incest and the pregnant woman’s health are narrow and include obstacles, but an ad left a misleading impression .
Gov. Ron DeSantis ramped up his all-out onslaught Tuesday against Florida’s abortion rights ballot initiative, bringing a statewide tour to Central Florida with early voting underway and a new poll showing Amendment 4 passing by a razor-thin margin.
Voters in 10 states will decide this November whether to adopt constitutional amendments that could shape the future of abortion access in their states. Most of the measures seek to protect abortion access until fetal viability,