Today is the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that guaranteed the right to abortion nationwide before being overturned last June. Here’s where abortion rights stand across the country after the 2022 midterms.
, where Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman defeated Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz, 36% of voters cited abortion as their top issue, compared with 29% who cited inflation.
The California and Vermont measures served mostly to secure an already strong abortion-rights policy in those solidly blue states. Kentucky’s amendment, meanwhile, was designed to keep state courts from creating Roe v. Wade-style legal protections. With the measure’s failure, anti-abortion advocates will have one less argument available in court,
Abortion-rights advocates also won key contests beyond Michigan. In Wisconsin, voters re-elected Gov. Tony Evers and fellow Democrat Josh Kaul, the attorney general. Like Michigan, Wisconsin is a purple state that faced reimposition of a pre-Roe abortion ban that has no exceptions for rape and incest.
What happens in Arizona, another purple state with a pre-Roe abortion ban on the books, remains to be seen. Races for governor and attorney general are among those that are too close to call.
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