Voters in three states enshrine constitutional abortion protections

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Current California law permits abortion until fetal viability, 24 to 26 weeks into a pregnancy.
49% : "Voters used their voice to say loud and clear they support access to abortion and contraception - safeguarding people's rights for generations to come," Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California CEO Jodi Hicks said in a statement.
48% : In August, voters in Kansas voted to keep abortion legal in the first popular vote on abortion rights in nearly 50 years and the first since the Dobbs decision.
45% : The results mean women are free to make all decisions about pregnancy, including prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion, miscarriage management, and infertility.
45% : Abortion remains legal because of a 1999 ruling protecting it under the state's constitution.
44% : In that election, voters soundly rejected an amendment to eliminate protections for abortion in the state's Constitution.
41% : In Kentucky, voters rejected a ballot measure that would have denied any constitutional protections for abortion.
41% : No Right to Abortion in Constitution Amendment, the measure would have served to cut off legal actions against the state's two abortion bans, including a challenge currently pending before the state Supreme Court that is set for a Nov. 15 hearing.
39% :A "born alive infant" is one that is "born alive after an induced labor, cesarean section, attempted abortion, or another method."
37% : Prior to that, the state's politically divided government had deadlocked on abortion, ensuring that a 1931 law banning abortions was dusted off.
36% : And in conservative Kentucky, voters rejected a ballot measure that would have denied any constitutional protections for abortion in a state where laws have already ostensibly banned the procedure.
35% : Abortion became illegal in the state after the Dobbs decision, with Amendment 2 aiming to cement that status.
31% : Tuesday's results do not mean the state legislature will automatically reverse the current legislation, which almost entirely prohibits abortion.
28% : The defeated amendment would have added language to the Kentucky constitution to state that citizens do not have a right to abortion and that the state is not required to provide government funding for abortion.

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