Abortion Rights Score Three Wins in Midterm Elections
Summary
Voters approved abortion-rights measures in Virginia and Nevada and rejected a Missouri proposal to restore abortion restrictions. Idaho voters rejected a proposal to loosen the state’s near-total ban, leaving advocates with a setback there.Key Facts
- Missouri voters rejected Amendment 3, with 55.5 percent voting against it and 45.5 percent supporting it, based on 99 percent of votes counted.
- Missouri’s existing constitutional protections for abortion remain in place, including access until fetal viability.
- Virginia voters approved Question 1 with 62.4 percent support, based on 96 percent of ballots counted.
- Virginia’s amendment protects reproductive freedom, including abortion care in the first two trimesters, and rights to contraception and fertility care.
- Virginia already allowed abortion up to about 24 weeks, so the amendment does not immediately change access.
- Nevada voters approved Question 6, establishing a constitutional right to abortion until fetal viability.
- Idaho voters rejected a proposal to loosen the state’s near-total abortion ban.
- Since the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision, abortion laws and access have varied by state.
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