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Did every state ballot question on abortion in 2022 have a pro-abortion rights outcome?

By Todd Butterworth
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In the 2022 midterm election, six states had abortion-related ballot questions — the most ever, according to Ballotpedia. Each of these questions had a pro-abortion rights outcome.

California, Michigan and Vermont each approved constitutional amendments to protect reproductive freedoms and rights related to contraception and abortion. Voters in Kansas and Kentucky defeated constitutional amendments that asserted nothing in the state constitution creates a right to abortion or requires government funding for abortions. Montana voters defeated a proposal that would have opened up health care providers to fines and prison time for not taking "medically appropriate and reasonable actions" to preserve the life of a fetus that survived an abortion.

Nevada and six other states proposed 2022 ballot questions related to abortion that did not make it to the ballot. An additional 10 abortion-related measures in eight states have been proposed for the 2023 and 2024 elections, but are pending signature drives or final legislative votes. 

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Ballotpedia 2022 abortion-related ballot measures
NPR Montana voters reject so-called 'Born Alive' ballot measure
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