Abortion referenda

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

State	Date	Name	Content
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)

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