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In ten states, millions of Americans vote directly on access to abortion
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In ten states, millions of Americans vote directly on access to abortion

Nebraska prohibits abortion at 12 weeks, with stated exceptions for rape, incest, or “to avoid her death or to prevent serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.”

Nevada

Question 6 of Nevada, entitled The Right to Abortion Initiativewould establish a state constitutional right to abortion while allowing the government to regulate after the point of “fetal viability,” around 24 weeks. The initiative includes exceptions that “protect the life or health of the pregnant patient.”

In Nevada, abortion is currently legal up to this point. The ballot initiative would further ensure these protections.

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In New York, Proposition 1 or the Equal Protection Amendment would be add a clause in the state’s Bill of Rights, ensuring “against unequal treatment based on ethnicity, national origin, age, disability and sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity and pregnancy”.

The initiative would also add protections “against unequal treatment based on reproductive health care and autonomy.”

In the Empire State, abortion is link up to and including 24 weeks. After that point, there are exceptions for fetal viability or to protect the life or health of the pregnant woman. Providers cannot be prosecuted for performing abortions outside this window, and minors do not need parental permission to obtain birth control, abortion, prenatal care, or access other reproductive health services.

In what is considered a blue state, the ballot initiative has been turned into a referendum on parental rights by anti-trans activists seeking to counter the amendment.

Like CBS rEPORTS“The Coalition to Protect Children is making an effort to dissuade people from voting yes on Prop 1, saying it opens the door for men to use women’s bathrooms, for transgender teenagers to compete on sports teams that align with their gender identity, and for minors to seek abortions without parental consent.”

South Dakota

South Dakota bans abortion in practically all cases, no exceptions for rape or incest. (There is a “life of the mother” exception.) Those who perform abortions are “guilty of a class 6 felony,” according to state law.

Of the state Constitutional Amendment Gor the Abortion Rights Initiative, “establishes a constitutional right to abortion and provides a legal framework for the regulation of abortion,” according to the ballot language.