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Abortion Rights Constitutional Amendments on 2024 Ballots in Multiple States

Efforts to reshape state constitutions to enshrine reproductive rights gain momentum, with significant support even among Florida's registered Republican voters.

  • Seven states have directly voted on abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, with abortion rights advocates undefeated in these ballot measures.
  • Two blue state legislatures have put abortion rights constitutional amendments on their 2024 ballots, while organizers in at least nine other states are leading citizen-driven efforts to put similar measures on the ballot.
  • 23 states enable citizens to put constitutional amendments on the ballot, and most of the efforts in 2024 are behind reshaping state constitutions to enshrine reproductive rights.
  • Passing a ballot measure is a highly expensive, time-consuming endeavor, requiring organizers to decide on language, gather tens or hundreds of thousands of signatures, and anticipate legal challenges.
  • In Florida, more than 150,000 registered Republican voters have signed a petition calling for a constitutional amendment that would guarantee a woman’s right to an abortion up to the point of a fetus’s viability.
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