The new landscape of the abortion fight.
People vote at the Hamilton County Board of Elections in Cincinnati, Nov. 4, 2022.
After winning 6 out of 6 ballot initiatives this year, abortion rights supporters are pressing for more, especially in states such as Ohio and Missouri where the legislatures are gerrymandered and staunchly anti-abortion. Yet ballot initiatives aren’t an option in every state. Liebel recognized a new state of play after the midterms, noting that the end of Roe v. Wade had brought a new cohort of defenders of abortion rights that anti-abortion groups were not used to having to counteract — in particular, doctors and representatives of hospitals, who publicly complained that new state prohibitions on abortion were interfering with proper medical care.
He expects that Republican-controlled legislatures will continue to pass laws like one adopted in Indiana this summer banning abortion except in cases of rape or incest or to save the life of the pregnant woman. And Republicans in the House will press for a nationwide ban on abortion. For now, however, the midterms did little to make abortion more available to the 34 million women of reproductive age who live in states that have prohibited it since Roe was overturned. Additional states have restricted it early in pregnancy. Standiford, of Planned Parenthood, said, “Before the election, there were 18 states with abortion bans in effect; after the election, there were 18 states with abortion bans in effect.
“Resist the urge to view this as a unique, one-off election midterm story, and instead see it for what it is, which is part of an upward trajectory of a powerful movement,” Andrea Miller, the president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health, which supports abortion rights, urged reporters on a conference call last month. “The tides are turning.”
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