{"id":321305,"date":"2024-11-06T12:15:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T18:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=321305"},"modified":"2024-11-07T12:30:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T18:30:57","slug":"voters-abortion-ballot-protect-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/voters-abortion-ballot-protect-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion on the ballot: Where voters protected preborn children, and where they didn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Voters in numerous states and cities took to the polls yesterday and were faced with ballot questions directly related to the protection of preborn lives.<\/p>\n

The biggest victory for preborn children was in Florida<\/strong>, where voters did not meet the 60% margin needed to overturn the state’s law protecting preborn children from abortion at around six weeks, instead upholding the safety and protection of those preborn lives. Voters in South Dakota<\/strong> also rejected a radical pro-abortion ballot measure that would have undone the state’s law restricting abortion, while those in Nebraska<\/strong> rejected a measure that would have expanded the state’s current law allowing abortion in the first trimester, to allowing it throughout pregnancy.<\/p>\n

However, protections for preborn human beings were stripped elsewhere, including a loss in Missouri that will repeal the state’s near-total protections for preborn babies, and once again allow the tragic killing of countless preborn lives.<\/p>\n

Here’s how abortion fared on the ballot:<\/p>\n

Arizona<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arizona voters<\/a> said yes to Proposition 139, which legalizes abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. The measure’s passage will undo the current law protecting preborn children from abortion after 15 weeks.<\/p>\n

Colorado<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colorado voters passed<\/a> Amendment 79, which further solidifies the state’s pro-abortion stance by enshrining the ‘right’ to abortion in the state’s constitution.<\/p>\n

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Colorado will enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution, after nearly 61% of voters backed the ballot measure and only about 39% of voters rejected it https:\/\/t.co\/RBckRKQrQG<\/a><\/p>\n

— TIME (@TIME) November 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n