What happened to votes on abortion rights in the US election?

STORY: :: November 6, 2024

In Miami, these Donald Trump supporters are celebrating the Republican's decisive win in the U.S. presidential race.

Some say they're also celebrating another victory: an abortion measure getting knocked down in the state.

“I was happy because look, first I am Catholic and I am a conservative,” says Karen Guerrero.

:: Orlando, Florida

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Ten states put abortion on the ballot this week.

:: Phoenix, Arizona

:: November 5, 2024

Seven of them gave the green light to constitutional amendments enshrining or expanding rights...

:: Kansas City, Missouri

:: October 12, 2024

Including, notably - in Missouri; a state with a total ban.

:: November 3, 2024

But in Florida, a proposal to amend the state's constitution to guarantee abortion rights fell three points short of the 60% vote threshold needed.

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In South Dakota and Nebraska voters rejected measures that would have have added abortion rights to the state constitution.

In Nebraska voters also approved a measure enshrining the state's current 12-week ban with some exceptions.

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The results give anti-abortion advocates their first victories since the U.S. Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to the procedure in 2022.

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In the wake of that ruling... more than a dozen states moved to ban abortion in all or most cases.

:: August 22, 2024

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris had campaigned on protecting reproductive rights...

Blaming Trump's Republican party for the bans.

Trump has said a federal abortion ban is unnecessary...

:: August 8, 2024

and that the issue should be figured out at the state level.

TRUMP: "Liberals, conservatives, everybody wanted it back in the states and I did that. Now the states are voting."

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On Tuesday, Democrats had hoped the issue would help liberal candidates secure seats on state supreme courts nationwide.

With nearly three dozen states with seats on the ballot, results were mixed.

:: Lansing, Michigan

Democratic-backed candidates in Kentucky and Michigan won contests... while Republicans won in Ohio.

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In Arizona, voters declined to kick two justices who had upheld an 1864 abortion ban off the bench in a retention election.