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Three states — Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota — voted against abortion rights. A slim majority of Nebraska voters supported an anti-abortion amendment to codify the state’s current 12-week abortion ban, beating out the state’s competing abortion rights measure.
Florida’s outcome was particularly heartbreaking for pro-choice groups because a majority of Floridians (57%) supported the amendment, voting to restore abortion access until fetal viability. But because voters didn’t meet the state’s 60% threshold for amending the state constitution, Amendment 4 did not pass.
“The reality is because of Florida’s constitution a minority ― a minority ― a minority of Florida voters have decided that Amendment 4 will not be adopted,” Lauren Brenzel, director of the Yes On 4 campaign, said during her Tuesday night concession speech.
“Republicans, Democrats and Independents do not support these extreme bans on abortion. They are tired of women dying because of abortion bans,” she continued. “…A bipartisan group of voters today sent a clear message to the Florida legislature.”
Despite 7 out of 10 states voting to protect abortion care, voters still supported a presidential candidate who will very likely decimate women’s reproductive health care. Donald Trump may have shied away from his anti-abortion record on the campaign trail, but now that he’s headed to the White House, those guardrails will likely fall by the wayside.
Trump has waffled on a national abortion ban, but many of his allies laid out a blueprint for how to ban abortion nationwide in Project 2025.
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