Abortion rights supporters celebrated a handful of victories on Tuesday night, as several states voted to enshrine protections for the procedure into their constitutions.
However, they lost what was arguably their hardest fight, after Florida voters defeated a measure to roll back the state’s six-week abortion ban, breaking a streak of ballot-measure victories kicked off when Roe v Wade was overturned by the US supreme court in 2022. They also fell short in Nebraska, where voters chose to enshrine the state’s existing 12-week ban rather than expand protections for the procedure to 24 weeks.
