Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024?
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-- Organizers of an effort to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban face a Friday deadline to submit enough signatures to try to put their proposal before voters in November's election.If they're successful, Arkansas would be the sixth state where election officials are validating signatures on abortion measures.
They are already on the ballot in another five, plus a proposed amendment in New York that would bar discrimination based on “pregnancy outcomes.”Supporters of other abortion measures in Arizona and Nebraska submitted petitions in their respective states on Wednesday.The fate of the measures could reshape or confirm the trendlines that have developed in the two years since the U.S.
Supreme Court removed the nationwide right to abortion.Since the ruling, most Republican-controlled states have new abortion restrictions in effect, including 14 that ban it at every stage of pregnancy.
Most Democratic-led states have laws or executive orders to protect access.Voters in all seven states that have had abortion questions before voters since 2022 have sided with abortion rights supporters, including California, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, Ohio and Vermont.Here's a look at the abortion measures that could be on ballots in November:COLORADOColorado’s top election official confirmed in May that a measure to enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution, including requirements that Medicaid and private health insurers cover it, made the ballot for the fall election.Supporters said they gathered more than 225,000 signatures, nearly double the requirement of over 124,000 signatures.Amending the state constitution requires the support of 55% of voters.Those backing a dueling measure — a law to ban abortion — did not submit signatures and the measure will not go before voters.Abortion is legal at all stages of pregnancy in Colorado.FLORIDAThe state Supreme Court ruled in April that a ballot measure to legalize abortion until fet...