Feb 19, 2024 Update
Mifepristone litigation:
State Ballot Initiatives:
Efforts are underway in multiple states to place abortion-related ballot measures to amend the state constitutions, including:- Arkansas: To establish a right to abortion up to 20 weeks, to protect the pregnant individual in life-threatening situations, and in cases of fatal fetal anomalies, rape, and incest (currently gathering signatures)
- Arizona: To protect abortion until viability and to protect the pregnant individual in life-threatening situations (currently gathering signatures)
- Colorado: To recognize the right to abortion in the constitution and repealing an existing amendment that prohibits the use of state funds for abortion (currently gathering signatures)
- Florida: To protect abortion until viability and to protect the pregnant individual in life-threatening situations (pending review with Florida Supreme Court)
- Iowa: Declaring that the state constitution does not require allocation of public funding for abortion care as well as not recognizing or securing a right to abortion (awaiting vote in state legislature)
- Maine: To guarantee a right to personal protective autonomy (awaiting Senate vote)
- Maryland: To guarantee a right to personal protective freedom (on the ballot)
- Missouri: To establish a right to abortion up to 12 weeks, to protect the pregnant individual in life-threatening situations, and in cases of fatal fetal anomalies, rape, and incest (approved for circulation); protecting reproductive freedom (currently gathering signatures)
- Montana: To protect abortion until viability (awaiting Montana Supreme Court Review)
- Nebraska: To establish a fundamental right to abortion until viability and to protect the pregnant individual in life-threatening situations (currently gathering signatures)
- Nevada: To establish a fundamental right to reproductive freedom (measure paused by District Court)
- Pennsylvania: To prohibit public funding for abortions or anything related to abortions (awaiting vote in PA legislature)
- South Dakota: To prohibit abortion only after end of second trimester and to protect the pregnant individual in life-threatening situations (currently gathering signatures)
- Georgia
- Iowa
- West Virginia
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