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What a night!
Voters in 10 states had the opportunity to protect voiceless and vulnerable babies in the womb. Voters in only three states did the right thing. But it was a huge thing.
Voters in Florida, Nebraska, and South Dakota rejected measures that would have enshrined the so-called right to abortion in state constitutions.
Florida’s ballot measure was defeated. Alarmingly, a majority of voters in the red state approved the measure, but it failed to meet the 60 percent threshold to pass.
Voters in Nebraska chose between two ballot measures: one to allow abortion until fetal viability (around 20-24 weeks) without the state interfering, and the other to ban abortions in the second and third trimesters, or after 12 weeks. The latter measure passed with 55.3 percent of the vote.
Voters in South Dakota rejected a ballot measure that would have amended the state constitution to enshrine a right to abortion.
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade (1973) and Casey v. Planned Parenthood (1992) in 2022, rejecting precedent that the Constitution gave women the right to kill their unborn babies, and returning the issue to the states. Some states had trigger laws in place to become effective after the overturning of Roe.
“We celebrate the lives that will be saved with the defeat of pro-abortion ballot measures in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota,” said SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Voters stopped the lies of Kamala Harris, George Soros, Gov. Pritzker, and the abortion industry from invading their state and removing laws that protect unborn children and women. The pro-life states of Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota have disrupted abortion activists’ track record, showing the path forward is to fight for life following the examples of Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Pete Ricketts and Rep. Dusty Johnson.”
The ultimate goal is to stop all the killing, not just limiting the killing based on gestational age.
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