The next president and control of Congress weren't the only things voters were deciding in Tuesday's election.

John Yang has more on the results of numerous state ballot measures focused on reproductive rights two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned.

Jeff, voters in 10 states were asked whether to amend their state constitutions to protect reproductive rights.

The ballot measures passed in seven states. In three states, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Florida,

abortion bans will remain in place. Fifty-seven percent of Florida voters supported the amendment,

but because 60 percent was required for passage, the state's six-week ban remains.

In addition, the return of Donald Trump to the White House could bring changes at the national

level. Mary Ziegler is a law professor at UC Davis. She's an expert on the law, history,

and politics of reproductive rights. Mary, in some of these states, the amendments really just reinforce current law.

But in other places, the voters repudiated current law.

Where are some of the biggest changes going to be, or biggest effects going to be?

Probably the most significant effects are going to be in Missouri.

Missouri had one of, and still

has one of the nation's most stringent abortion bans. And by a pretty slim margin, voters in that

state chose to institute state protection for reproductive rights. So we expect to see a court

challenge to the state ban in short order, and likely we'll see that state

ban struck down by the courts of the state. There was also a pretty significant shift in Arizona,

which had a ban at 15 weeks and potentially with a Republican majority legislature in the future,

the prospect for more stringent laws in the future. So there, I think, we're going to see

significant challenges to the status quo that are likely to succeed in the near term.

I want to follow up on that because you say that it needs to take court challenges. These

amendments don't wipe out these laws automatically. Right. So if people remember back to when

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