Ballot initiatives protecting access to abortion win across five states in midterms - 1010 WCSI

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Voters across the country backed a series of ballot initiatives on Tuesday protecting access to abortion.
45% : In Michigan, voters passed a ballot initiative creating a right to abortion within the state's constitution.
44% : By striking down Roe, the nation's highest court essentially gave the states wide jurisdiction to regulate abortion.
42% : Kentucky's citizens opted against amending the state constitution to clarify there is no right to abortion or a requirement for the government to fund the practice.
42% : "Abortion mattered so, so much more in this election than pundits and pollsters understood," said Sawyer Hacket, a Democratic political strategist.
41% : The ballot measures were proposed in response to the Supreme Court's decision earlier this year to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion legal nationwide.
40% : The initiative, which passed by roughly double digits, according to the Michigan Board of Elections, also strikes down a 1931 law that bans abortion.
36% : "Democracy wasn't on the ballot, but abortion was, and it seems that the democracy has spoken in favor of abortion," said Adrian Vermuele, a conservative legal scholar at Harvard University.
36% : In Republican-led Kentucky and Montana, meanwhile, voters struck down ballot initiatives seeking to restrict access to abortion.

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