The Latest Breaking News from Abortion

Michigan voters voted 56.7% to 43.3% (with >95% of votes in, see N.Y. Times) to enact a state constitutional right to reproductive freedom, which would cover abortion rights; California and Vermont voters supported the same, but those states already broadly allow abortions. Voters in Kentucky (where abortion is generally illegal)…

Dispelling predictions of a red wave, Democrats seized complete control of the legislatures in Michigan and Minnesota, and held on to governorships in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, maintaining a bulwark against Republican-dominated legislatures in the latter two states.

Your guide to what just happened in the US midterm elections and why the result is some way off

This year’s landmark decision of the US Supreme Court to overturn the constitutional right to abortion established by the Roe versus Wade judgement in 1973 leaves Australian women better off than those in the United States.

As a block, this year’s midterm races did not go as expected. But even as Democrats stemmed their losses in the House and as the Senate still hangs in the balance, a frequent theme of the House and Senate map remained: The battle was fought on some unexpected turf. No,…

Pink champagne lined a wall of the Citizen Hotel’s ballroom in downtown Sacramento, Shania Twain blasted over the speakers, Proposition 1 supporters wore matching hot pink suits and the room was lit with pink spotlights. Californians had overwhelmingly voted to pass Prop. 1 and to enshrine the right to abortion…

In states where abortion was on the ballot, people overwhelmingly voted to support access to the procedure — and where anti-abortion candidates stood for election, voters tended not to favor them

PRO-ABORTION campaigners across Scotland have reacted to the news that multiple states in the US have passed measures which will enshrine the right…

Biden said he would work with GOP leaders, though some issues were not subject to compromise, including abortion rights.

Democrats topped Republicans in a series of competitive races, defying expectations that high inflation and President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings would drag his party to key defeats.

Abortion rights supporters won in the four states where access was on the ballot