Arizona and Missouri voters approved measures to protect reproductive rights, effectively overturning existing bans on abortion.
In Florida and South Dakota,ballot measuresto overturn state abortion bans failed.
Two of those states, Arkansas and Oklahoma, have total abortion bans.
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In North Dakota, the third state, a judge repealed the abortion ban.
Heres a rundown of how abortion appeared on the ballot in 10 states this week.
Abortion was previously banned at every point of a pregnancy.
Before Tuesdays vote, Florida was the last of a dozen states in the Southeast without an abortion ban.
Nebraska
Nebraska was the only state that asked voters to decide on two competing ballot proposals.
One would have cemented Nebraskans right to an abortion until fetal viability, at around 24 weeks of pregnancy.
The other sought to ban all abortions after 12 weeks.
Voters passed the abortion ban and defeated the abortion protective amendment.
The state will now ban abortions in the second and third trimester.
It also prohibits any laws that will penalize people for helping others exercise their right to abortion.
This year, voters in the state officially repealed an 1864 total abortion ban.
However, another law banned abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
That law will no longer be legal under the new amendment.
South Dakota
South Dakota voters rejected a ballot proposal to protect abortion access in the state.
The ballotinitiative proposedto regulate abortion based on trimesters.
A 2023 law prevents a woman who received an abortion from being held criminally liable.
A Nevada law from 1990 protects abortion until fetal viabilitygenerally around 24 weeks of pregnancy.
However, those protections can be overturned by a one-time majority vote in a state referendum.
Previously, the right to abortion in Montana depended on case law founded on the right to privacy.
Colorado
Voters passed a ballot initiative to cement a right to abortion in the state constitution.
It prohibits local governments from denying or interfering with the right to an abortion.
The proposal repealed a 1984 article in the constitution that prohibited the use of public health funds for abortion.
The new amendment allows abortion to be a covered service under health insurance plans.
A 1991 law prohibited the state government from interfering with the decision to terminate a pregnancy.
That law was upheld in a 1992 referendum vote.
