'Seismic win': Michigan voters approve constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Voters in Montana and Kentucky, meanwhile, are poised to defeat anti-abortion measures that would further roll back their reproductive rights.
48% : "Until there is national legislation that protects abortion rights across the country, we will continue to work to ensure that state constitutions protect the right to abortion."
47% : In California and Vermont, states where abortion is currently legal, voters approved ballot measures to affirm support for reproductive freedom in their states' constitutions.
46% : "When people can vote directly on abortion in a non-partisan ballot initiative, abortion rights win."
44% : Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement that "this is a seismic win for abortion rights in a battleground state." "This victory is also a win for people in the neighboring states of Indiana and Ohio, where abortion is banned," Northup added.

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