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Kamala Harris' campaign for the White House focused on mobilizing voters upset over the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, which ended the federal right to abortion. Despite Harris' efforts, exit polls showed that abortion was not a top priority for most voters, with only 14% citing it as their primary issue, compared to nearly a third who said the economy was their main concern. Harris did better than Trump with women voters (53% to 45%), but her share of the female vote was smaller than Biden's in 2020, and Trump made gains among women, improving by 3 percentage points. While Harris campaigned for a federal law to restore abortion rights, Trump argued the issue should be left to states. As abortion laws become more state-specific, future state-level elections, particularly for state supreme courts, will be crucial in determining abortion access.
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Missouri advocates are campaigning for Amendment 3, which would establish a constitutional right to abortion in the state. With Missouri currently holding one of the strictest abortion bans in the nation, supporters, including Planned Parenthood, are canvassing to gain public backing. Missouri’s ban was enacted in 2022 after the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, causing many residents to seek care in nearby Kansas. Anti-abortion groups, like 40 Days for Life, argue the current law protects maternal health in emergencies and oppose Amendment 3, asserting abortion is not healthcare. If passed, the amendment would prompt legal challenges.
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Montana has introduced a crucial initiative on the November ballot to protect abortion access, responding to the 2022 Supreme Court decision that ended federal abortion rights and ignited nationwide debate.
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US Vice President Kamala Harris discussed the stakes of the upcoming 2024 Presidential election, calling it “the most significant election of our lifetime,” and referred to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s remark that he wanted to be a dictator on the first day of his presidency if he wins. Harris said this was especially concerning amid the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in former President Trump’s case that presidents were entitled to immunity for official acts.
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In focusing on a particular kind of abortion and a particular kind of woman, they stigmatize others
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Authors of the proposal, from a left-wing coalition, argued it was aimed at “protecting and guaranteeing the fundamental right to voluntary termination of pregnancy and to contraception by inscribing it into our Constitution.”
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Benin, with a population of 12 million, mostly Christians and Muslims, has become one of the few countries in Africa where abortion is broadly available.
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The top court’s ruling came as it was interpreting the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act and the related rules visa-vis the discrimination between married and unmarried women to allow abortion till 24 weeks of pregnancy.
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At the outset, the bench was informed a 25-year-old woman, who was allowed to terminate her 24-week pregnancy on July 21, is safe after a successful procedure.
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Abolitionists have long represented a radical fringe, minimized by prominent mainstream national groups who have focused on advancing incremental abortion restrictions.
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A similar phenomenon occurred after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, according to a 2019 study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The study did not assess the motivation of people who received IUDs then, but there were concerns women could lose access to birth control after Trump promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act on the campaign trail.
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Women in remote, rural parts of the Midwest and South, where the closest abortion clinic might now be hundreds of miles away, faced the prospect of expensive trips across state lines.
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Thousands of protestors -- chanting, banging drums and wielding placards --flooded streets across the United States on Saturday and Friday.
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During that time, the court’s membership and views on abortion regulations have changed.
