Abortion rights activists scored victories at the ballot box during the U.S. midterm elections. Voters from three states approved ballot measures to protect abortion and deeply conservative Kentucky rejected an anti-abortion measure
In the battleground state of Michigan, voters passed a constitutional amendment that enshrines the right to an abortion by nearly 55%, according to Edison Research. Voters in California and Vermont also approved adding abortion protections to their state constitutions byMeantime, 51% of voters in Kentucky rejected a constitutional amendment that would have declared there was no right to abortion, just as Kansas voters had done with a similar amendment in August.
"Proposal 3's passage marks an historic victory for abortion access in our state and in our country – and Michigan has paved the way for future efforts to restore the rights and protections of Roe v. Wade nationwide," said Darci McConnell, a spokesperson for the campaign supporting the amendment. Morgan Koetje and Nickolas Lentz from Reproductive Freedom for All, canvass a neighborhood in support of Proposal 3, a ballot measure that would codify the right to an abortion, one day before the midterm election in Dewitt, Michigan, U.S., November 7, 2022.
They are costly and time-consuming, however. Michigan's abortion rights coalition spent more than $30 million on their winning campaign this year. Anti-abortion advocates also are looking toward ballot measures as a mechanism to firm up state abortion restrictions.
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