Abortion Rights Win on Midterm Ballots Across the Country

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Voters in California, Michigan, and Vermont elected to amend their state constitutions, according to the Associated Press, firmly protecting the right to abortion.
41% : In June, just before Roe v. Wade was overturned, Pew Research published a poll showing that 61% of U.S. adults think abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
36% : In Kentucky, a firmly red state, voters struck down an anti-abortion measure that would have amended the state constitution to say that there is no constitutional right to abortion.
35% : In Kentucky, California, Vermont, Michigan, and Montana, voters considered ballot questions on abortion.
34% : According to the Washington Post, exit polls found that 6 in 10 midterm voters think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and about 3 in 10 said abortion was the most important issue behind their vote.
28% : Whitmer's re-election and the passing of the ballot measure to protect abortion took away any gray area in the state, enshrining abortion rights.

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