The 2022 Midterm Elections Had a Major Impact on Abortion Rights in These 5 States
glamour.comThis has been updated to reflect the 2022 midterm election results.It’s been, to say the least, a difficult year for abortion access, as the June overturning of Roe v.
Wade by the Supreme Court set the stage for reproductive rights to be challenged in . However, as the results of the 2022 midterm elections come in, it appears some major victories for the abortion-rights movement were won across the country.
Below, see the five states where abortion rights were impacted most by the outcome of the midterms:This historically red state was already affected by an abortion trigger law after the fall of Roe, and anti-abortion activists have lent support to a ballot measure stating that nothing in the state’s constitution protects the right to an abortion.
While votes are still being counted, have rejected that measure, Amendment 2, so far.A 1931-era anti-abortion law that provides zero exceptions for cases of rape or incest was effectively by Michigan voters in this year’s midterms, constituting a major win for state-by-state reproductive rights in the post-Roe era.The legal question of personhood—as it relates to fetal viability—was raised yet again in Montana, where voters weighed in on a declaring that an embryo or fetus is a legal person with a right to medical care if it is born prematurely or survives an attempted abortion.
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