The state’s voters had overwhelmingly supported letting a two-year-old law take effect, and lower courts had refused to put it on hold.
Tag: Referendums
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The New Landscape of the Abortion Fight
After the midterm elections, abortion rights advocates hope to harness public support for the long term, while abortion foes look to advance new laws in sympathetic courts and legislatures.
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There Is a Way to Break Out of Our Constitutional Stagnation
States are turning back into “laboratories of democracy.”
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Michigan, California, Vermont Affirm Abortion Rights in State Ballot Proposals
Voters in all three states amended their constitutions to include reproductive rights, while Kentucky voters rejected an amendment that would have said there was no right to the procedure.
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At Campaign’s End, Democrats See Limits of Focus on Abortion
Shock and outrage over the fall of Roe v. Wade has faded as confusion has spread, deflating Democrats’ hopes that the issue could carry them to victory.