The Future Of Abortion After The 2024 Election

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

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Summary

Abortion was on the ballot this past election, not just in the country's choice of president, but in the form of state initiatives.

Missouri is one of the seven states where abortion rights measures prevailed. Amendment 3 passed with 51.7 percent of the vote. The measure establishes a right to reproductive freedom in the Missouri constitution. That paves the way for advocates to ask courts to knock down the current near total abortion ban.

Six other states including Arizona, Colorado, New York, Maryland, Montana and Nevada also voted to protect or expand current abortion protections. But the GOP has signaled that it will look to limit abortion access nationally in the coming years given the party's dominance in Washington.

We discuss the future of abortion access in the U.S. could look like.

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast and the following message come from the NPR Wine Club, which has generated over $1.75 million to support NPR programming.
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0:30.2	In the week since the election, we've been collecting your thoughts about the results.
0:31.8	I'm calling from Nebraska.
0:33.2	I can't stop crying.
0:35.9	I'll probably be okay.
0:41.0	I'm worried about my friends whose parents are undocumented and my friends with conditioning. I just was really hoping I would not feel like this the morning after the election.
0:49.4	Indeed, for many of you, reproductive rights have been top of mind since Election Day.
0:54.3	I'm a nurse from Houston, Texas, and I am very happy that we're back on course as a nation,
1:00.8	but I do believe that the abortion issue definitely warrants review.
1:05.2	I believe that this is a decision, and even though I'm very conservative,
1:09.1	needs to be between a woman and her doctor,
1:12.0	the government needs to take a step back.
1:15.3	I really love our government to start focusing on keeping abortions legal, safe, and, of course,
1:23.4	most importantly, rare, period.
1:25.9	Voters were in favor of expanding abortion rights in seven out of
1:29.1	ten states with ballot measures. Arizona, Colorado, New York, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, and Missouri
1:35.7	voted to protect or expand current abortion protections. Nationally, the GOP has signaled that it will
1:42.1	look to limit abortion access in the coming years,
1:44.9	given the party's dominance in Washington.
1:47.1	So what does the future of abortion access in the U.S. look like?
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