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Florida���s Abortion Rights Ballot Measure Fails, Keeping Six-Week Ban in Place

The defeat is a political victory for Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, who had become the face of a well-funded opposition campaign.

2024 State Ballot Measures to Watch: Abortion, Elections and Minimum Wage

Voters in 41 states are considering ballot measures that also include legalizing marijuana and public funding for private schools.

What Data Shows About Late Abortions as States Prepare to Vote on Measures

Both sides are trying to make their opponents sound extreme. Here is what studies and data show about when and why abortions happen later in pregnancy.

Anti-Abortion Groups Have a Long To-Do List if Trump Wins

Activists on both sides say Trump could effectively ban abortion nationwide and establish fetal personhood, the longtime goal of the anti-abortion movement.

Texas Man Drops Suit Against Women Who Helped Ex-Wife Get Abortion Pills

The suit had accused the three women of wrongful death. It was part of a heated battle over the use of such pills in states with abortion bans.

Book Review: ���The Elements of Marie Curie,��� by Dava Sobel

In a new biography, Dava Sobel focuses not just on the legendary physicist and chemist, but on the 45 women who worked in her lab.

Poll Finds Support for Florida���s Abortion Ballot Measure Is Falling Short

Earlier surveys have shown higher support, but the state���s Republican governor is working hard to defeat the initiative.

���The statute you signed into law, it says that a doctor who presides over an abortion where the baby survives ��� the doctor is under no obligation to provide life-saving care to a baby who survives a botched late-term abortion.���

See Where Abortion Is on the Ballot Across the U.S.

Ten states could expand abortion rights via ballot measures. Nebraska will also vote on proposed restrictions.

North Dakota���s Abortion Ban Is Overturned

A judge ruled that the State Constitution protected a woman���s right to abortion until the fetus was viable. The state���s attorney general said he would appeal.