US states vote to protect reproductive rights in rebuke to anti-abortion push
by Poppy Noor in Detroit, Michigan and Gabrielle Cano from US news | The Guardian on (#65M8Z)
Vermont, Michigan and California add protections to state constitutions while Kentucky rejects anti-abortion measure
Voters in multiple US states passed measures to enshrine the right to abortion during Tuesday's midterm elections, or knocked down attempts to further curtail such rights, in a stinging rebuke to the crackdown on reproductive freedoms taking place across the US.
In Michigan, abortion rights campaigners declared victory on a ballot initiative looking to secure a constitutional right to abortion, meaning the state will now escape the imposition of a 1931 abortion ban that was on the books.
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