You, our readers, care a lot about reproductive freedom

Last week, LGBTQ Nation asked you, our readers, what your biggest concern is when it comes to topics that are popping up on ballot initiatives across the country this year, and you all picked abortion rights.

In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the federal right to get an abortion and effectively forcing pregnant people in states that don’t approve of abortion to carry fetuses to term even if they don’t want to. The backlash against this decision has been enormous and became a major issue in the 2022 elections.

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This year, measures related to abortion are on the ballot in 10 states. In nine of those states – Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York, and South Dakota – the measures would, if passed, protect the right to an abortion. The tenth state – Nebraska – has two competing ballot initiatives related to abortion, one to protect it and another that would ban it.

Over 44% of readers picked “abortion rights” in the poll. Voting rights was next at 22%, and the other three choices – energy and the environment, education reform and funding, and minimum wage and sick leave – all got fewer than 14% of the vote.

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