What Tuesday’s elections mean for the future of abortion rights

Democrats' commanding victories have breathed new life for supporters of the reproductive health fight

Supporters of abortion rights have spent much of the last year trying to fight Donald Trump's attempts to undermine access to the procedure. Now, Democrats' commanding victories in the 2025 elections have breathed new life into the fight.

Democrats Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill's respective gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey will shield abortion rights in two states that have become havens for people fleeing abortion bans. In Pennsylvania, voters decided to retain three liberal supreme court justices, maintaining Democratic control of a bench that could decide the future of abortion rights in the deeply purple state.