Voters backed ballot initiatives on Tuesday to protect abortion access, while simultaneously striking down efforts by conservatives to restrict the practice.
Montana's voters, on the other hand, are poised to reject a ballot measure codifying into state law federal protections for infants born after a botched abortion. The initiative would have defined an infant"alive" at any gestational age as a legal person.
It would have also instituted criminal penalties for health care providers that did not provide life-saving care to infants born during an attempted abortion. While votes are still outstanding and the ballot initiative has not been officially rejected, opponents have a healthy lead. The ballot measures were proposed in response to the Supreme Court's decision earlier this year to overturn Roe v. Wade.
"Abortion mattered so, so much more in this election than pundits and pollsters understood," said Sawyer Hacket, a Democratic political strategist. The ballot measures were proposed in response to the Supreme Court's decision earlier this year to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion legal nationwide. By striking down Roe, the nation's highest court essentially gave the states wide jurisdiction to regulate abortion.
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