In several states where laws protecting abortion were passed, Donald Trump won
American voters this week chose to be re-elected a man Have bragged many times about the craft the Supreme Court majority overthrew fish eggs v. Swimconsistent spread false information about pregnant women having abortions “after birth”, speak There must be “some form of punishment” for women who terminate their pregnancies, saying it is up to the states whether they want to do so. Personal pregnancy tracker to see whether women have abortions or not.
At the same time, Americans in Missouri, Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Montana, New York and Nevada voted to pass ballot measures that guaranteed abortion rights through their state constitutions. Abortion became legal again in Arizona and Missouri. Both states currently guarantee access until viability, a sometimes misleading term that tends to mean about 24 weeks or later to protect the person’s physical or mental health. pregnant. Missouri’s total prohibition was one of the strictest in the nation, and its winning ballot measure was the first since Dobbs that voters had to repeal the abortion ban by popular vote.
Some states where these ballot initiatives received majority support were also handily elected Donald Trump. That voters would choose both Trump and measures that support reproductive freedom is astonishing — and puzzling. It is one reality that is consistent with another reality, that everyone, regardless of how they vote, may one day need an abortion or other reproductive health care to save their life.
On Tuesday – this discord became clear. In Montana, more than 57% of voters moved to maintain abortion access in the state. However, about 58% of voters want Trump to win the presidency. Arizonans passed Proposition 139, and although the state hasn’t officially been called into the presidential race, Trump is currently leading. In Missouri, the first state to officially ban post-abortion abortion Dobbs decision, nearly 52% of voters included reproductive rights in the state constitution, while 58% of voters voted for Trump. And in Florida, where more than 57% of voters approved of Amendment 4, the initiative could overturn the state’s six-week abortion ban (but since Florida requires a 60% approval vote for ballot measure so it did not pass), 56% of Trump voters.
Opinion polls show that, while more women vote for Kamala Harris than Trump, white women—as in 2016 And 2020—are more likely to vote for Trump than Democrats. While it’s unclear how many white women or other voters chose to protect abortion and vote for the man who took credit for creating the environment to push them back, one thing is clear. post-election is that these divided voters clearly exist.
The 2024 election, like previous midterms, will be remembered in part for abortion. Harris, who spoke about reproductive freedom with unprecedented seriousness during her campaign, is the first sitting vice president to visit an abortion provider while in office. Her campaign tick stories of people denied abortions, survivors of sexual violence, and people was on the front line at medical facilities nationwide. For millions of voters this week, abortion is said to be the number one issue on their minds. Four in ten female voters under 30 said abortion was the most important issue to their vote. And this is also true in vibrational states. ONE New York Times/Siena College compiled polls of registered voters in seven battleground states from August establish that for women under 45, abortion has surpassed the economy as the most important issue for their vote.
Plan C, an organization that provides resources for self-administering at-home medication abortions, released a statement after Trump’s victory: “Donald Trump’s second administration is a disaster waiting to happen. for reproductive justice. While we can expect the worst for abortion rights, we also know that no matter what, abortion is here to stay.”
His Trump running buddy J.D. Vanceand his spokesperson group run one coordinated campaign to recast and misrepresent the former president’s impact in diminishing access to reproductive health care for millions of women across the country. Yet his legacy remains clear, as does the right’s disdain for abortion and those who try to expand access to it.
