Here’s where abortion rights stand across the country after the midterms as states head into their 2023 legislative sessions.
, where Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman defeated Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz, 36% of voters cited abortion as their top issue, compared with 29% who cited inflation.
The California and Vermont measures served mostly to secure an already strong abortion-rights policy in those solidly blue states. Kentucky’s amendment, meanwhile, was designed to keep state courts from creating Roe v. Wade-style legal protections. With the measure’s failure, anti-abortion advocates will have one less argument available in court,
Abortion-rights advocates also won key contests beyond Michigan. In Wisconsin, voters re-elected Gov. Tony Evers and fellow Democrat Josh Kaul, the attorney general. Like Michigan, Wisconsin is a purple state that faced reimposition of a pre-Roe abortion ban that has no exceptions for rape and incest.
What happens in Arizona, another purple state with a pre-Roe abortion ban on the books, remains to be seen. Races for governor and attorney general are among those that are too close to call.
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