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Idaho rejects ballot measure adding abortion access protection
NBC News projects the measure failed, leaving Idaho’s 2022 abortion ban in place and blocking a right to abortion up to fetal viability.
- On November 4, NBC News projected that Idaho voters rejected Proposition 1, the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act Initiative, preserving the state's abortion ban and blocking the measure from taking effect in 2027.
- Idaho's abortion ban, which became law in 2022 following the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade, restricts abortion access across the state and remains the governing standard after the vote.
- The rejected Proposition would have enshrined the right to 'reproductive freedom and privacy,' defining fetal viability as a fetus having 'a significant likelihood of sustained survival' around 23 weeks.
- Almost a third of Idaho's OB-GYNs retired, stopped practicing, or moved away between 2022 and 2024, continuing strain on reproductive care access as the state's abortion ban remains in effect.
- According to the Center for Reproductive Rights, 11 states expanded abortion access since the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, placing Idaho in a shrinking minority tightening reproductive laws.
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The Catholic SunIdaho defies trend, rejects abortion protections ballot measure
Voters in Idaho rejected a ballot measure that would have established abortion as a state right, but voters in Nevada and Virginia approved similar measures. The post Idaho defies trend, rejects abortion protections ballot measure first appeared on OSV News.
·Huntington, United States
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Idaho rejects ballot measure adding abortion access protection
A ballot measure that would legalize abortion access up until fetal viability in Idaho, reversing the state’s current ban, is projected to fail, according to Decision Desk HQ. Voters rejected the ballot measure, which sought to establish protections around reproductive access in the Gem State up to viability, around 23 to 24 weeks, when the…
·Washington, United States
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