Supporters of reproductive rights saw victories among Democratic candidates who made legal abortion central to their campaigns, and in states where abortion was directly on the ballot.
All right, Sarah, I'm going to start with you, what were the five ballot initiatives that were on ballots on Tuesday night?Three of them were essentially what abortion rights advocates tend to term proactive measures, efforts to shore up abortion rights in state constitutions. Those passed in Vermont, California, and Michigan. Now, those first two states were pretty widely expected to pass.
Kentucky was the last one, and I spent some time in Kentucky. It was a little bit confusing, I think, to a lot of voters who tried to understand exactly how that one worked. Kentucky voters were asked to explicitly state in their state constitution that there was no right to an abortion, and they rejected that. A bit of a double negative there. There was a lot of effort on the ground in Kentucky to work against that amendment and the campaign to defeat it succeeded.
Republicans here did not win that, but they did flip the court here in North Carolina. Again, now you hear activists saying that there's a real possibility that the courts could overturn. As you look at the broad perspective of what's happening in states like North Carolina, Michigan, others, Alexis, what do you see as a merging in this patchwork?I think North Carolina, I would argue abortion made the Senate race there incredibly competitive.
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