Abortion referenda

Abortion referenda include 5 ballot initiatives concerning abortion in 2022:[1]

State  | Date  | Name  | Content

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California  | Nov. 8  | Proposition 1  | creates unlimited right to abortion (and contraceptives), and bans pro-life laws.
Kansas  | Aug. 2  | Amendment  | Nothing in state constitution creates a right to abortion or requires funding of it, and the state legislature may pass pro-life laws
Kentucky  | Nov. 8  | Amendment  | Nothing in state constitution creates a right to abortion or requires funding of it
Montana  | Nov. 8  | LR-131  | protects all infants born alive and requires medical care for them, declaring them to be legal persons
Vermont  | Nov. 8  | Proposal 5  | amends the state constitution to create a new right to personal reproductive autonomy, a code term for abortion

## Other states that passed pro-life amendments to Constitution[edit]

Four other states had passed pro-life ballot initiatives which prohibit judicial interpretation of their state constitutions to authorize abortion, as of July 2022:

* Tennessee (2014), overruling the ruling by the Tennessee Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood v. Sundquist (2000)
* Alabama (2018)
* West Virginia (2018), overruling the ruling by the West Virginia Supreme Court in Women’s Health Center v. Panepinto (1993) (requiring funding of abortion by Medicaid)
* Louisiana (2020)

## References[edit]

1. ↑ https://ballotpedia.org/2022_abortion-related_ballot_measures