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10 States Will Vote on Abortion This Fall. Here’s What’s at Stake.

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With all eyes on this November’s elections for president and Congress, voters risk losing sight of the pivotal battlegrounds where the issue of protecting — or sacrificing — innocent life is on the ballot nationwide. Voters in 10 states will vote on 11 ballot initiatives, nearly all of which would open the door to expanding the taking of innocent life as late as the third trimester.

Voters this November will decide on abortion-related ballot initiatives in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, and South Dakota.

“Americans will be going to the polls to vote on the issue of life. They’ll be voting on whether or not to protect life in their state constitutions and in their state laws,” Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told the 2024 Pray Vote Stand Summit (PVSS) in Washington, D.C., last Friday. “We’re so thankful that they finally have the chance to do so — that the Supreme Court has finally recognized that Roe was wrongly decided, that Roe was an abomination in the Constitution, that now the issue of life again belongs to the people and their elected representatives.”

Experts at FRC Action have compiled the facts about these post-Dobbs state abortion initiatives into a new document titled “Life on the Ballot.” The resource briefly records the language that will appear on the ballot, as well as how each measure would impact ...

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