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In some conservative California counties where anti-abortion candidates win, so does abortion

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In some of California’s most conservative counties, where Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Dahle was the clear favorite over Gov. Gavin Newsom and where anti-abortion Christian conservatives are leading in partial returns, voters still showed up for abortion access by supporting Proposition 1.

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Abortion rights wins in Kentucky, elsewhere stoke supporters

An election win for abortion supporters in Kentucky will be tested this week when the state’s Supreme Court considers the state's abortion ban

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Abortion bumped inflation to the back burner. Both sides see lessons for 2024

The candidates and ballot measures that triumphed in the midterm elections prove that millions of voters are most energized by abortion access — not worries about inflation or crime.

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US abortion rights advocates celebrate five-state election sweep

In the US midterm elections, five states, including Michigan, pass ballot measures to protect abortion access.

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LOCALIZE IT: How abortion played a role in US elections

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Midterms reinforce Christian voter trends on abortion, GOP

Evangelical Christians across the U.S. reconfirmed their allegiance to conservative candidates and causes in the midterm elections

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Opponents offer differing views of the impact of voters’ decision on the abortion amendment

Next Tuesday finds the question of abortion before the Kentucky State Supreme Court.

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Abortion rights organizer ‘not surprised’ Kentuckians rejected Amendment 2

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Montana vote adds to win streak for abortion rights backers

Abortion rights supporters secured another win Thursday as voters in Montana rejected a ballot measure that would have forced medical workers to intercede in the rare case of a baby born after an attempted abortion

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Madonna King: The name that galvanised the US midterms and stopped the ‘red tide’

It was a strategic call; a bid to galvanise Democrat voters to turn out in force to have their voice heard in the midterms.

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After wins at the ballot, abortion rights groups want to 'put this to the people'

Victories in several states this year have abortion rights advocates looking at where they can next take the fight directly to voters.

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Editorial: Abortion rights triumphed from coast to coast

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, leaving the right to control one’s own body and decision to be a parent to the whims of state lawmakers, it fell to advocates and voters to fight to protect reproductive rights. A record six measures concerning abortion were placed…

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Commentary: Republicans misjudged the power of abortion rights

After the expected red wave seems to have been little more than a red ripple, are any centrist pundits going to renew their calls for a federal compromise on abortion? Prior to the election, I saw essay after essay preemptively lambasting Democrats for being too focused on this supposedly fringe…

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Tapping into ‘a simmering rage’: Democrats’ emphasis on abortion stopped GOP gains

This summer, in the weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, more than three-quarters of a million residents of Michigan signed petitions to put a measure on the ballot to add abortion rights to the state constitution.

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US midterm election results: Georgia heads to a runoff as Senate hangs in the balance

Republicans need a net gain of five seats to take control of the House of Representatives and one seat to win back the Senate. Here is the latest count in key races.

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In first nationwide election since Roe was overturned, voters opt to protect abortion access

The first major election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade saw abortion rights on the ballot in a record number of states. The outcomes of these initiatives suggest that when Kansas voters in August 2022 rejected a proposed constitutional amendment declaring there is no state right to abortion,…

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Fox pundit says Democrats did well in midterms because 'these women just went crazy'

Voters passed pro-abortion initiatives across country

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Abortion helped Democrats across the U.S. hold off a “red wave.” Not in Texas.

In conservative Kansas and Kentucky, voters turned out in droves and crossed party lines to support abortion access. In Texas — where candidates, not issues, were on the ballot — there was no such surge in support.

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Abortion rights backers see big wins in Tuesday results

Voters in five states Tuesday appeared poised to follow Kansas’ lead to support fewer restrictions on abortion.

Reason

Abortion in the States

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)…

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Pot Prohibition Continues Collapsing, and Psychedelic Bans Could Be Next

Two more states legalized recreational marijuana on Tuesday, while decriminalization of five natural psychedelics looks like a winner in Colorado.

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Abortion supporters win in conservative, liberal states

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

France 24

Republican Kentucky, swing state Michigan vote to uphold legal abortion

Voters in reliably red Kentucky rejected a ballot measure aimed at denying any state constitutional protections for abortion while voters in battleground Michigan enshrined abortion rights in their state's constitution — joining Democratic California and Vermont in taking that step.

Reason

One Year Later

The sky did not fall after the Supreme Court exited the abortion debate.

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It Was a Good Night For Abortion Rights, Ron DeSantis, Iowa Gun Owners—and Democrats

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