Last updatedMarch 4, 2025

Voters in a record 10 states cast ballots to decide whether to enshrine abortion rights in their state constitutions this year.Ballot measures that passed will lift abortion bans in two states and expand access in others. Defeated measures in three states mean their abortion restrictions will remain in place.

Right to Abortion

This amendment limits government interference with the procedure before viability or when needed for the patient's health. This measure needs 60 percent of the vote to pass.

Right to Reproductive Freedom

The amendment would guarantee the right to abortion access by adding language to the Constitution protecting "the ability to make and effectuate decisions to prevent, continue, or end one's own pregnancy."

Right to Abortion

This amendment would establish a constitutional right to reproductive rights and would remove Missouri's ban on abortion.

Right to Abortion

This proposition would amend the state Constitution to establish a fundamental right to the procedure, limiting the state’s power to interfere with this right before fetal viability.

Right to Abortion

This amendment would add language to the state Constitution recognizing the right to the procedure and prohibiting state and local governments from impeding that right. This measure needs 55 percent of the vote to pass.

Prohibit Abortion Past First Trimester

This measure would amend the state Constitution to not allow the procedure in the second or third trimester, except in cases of medical emergency or for pregnancies resulting from incest or sexual assault.

Right to Abortion

This measure would amend the state Constitution to establish a right to the procedure until fetal viability, or when necessary to safeguard the health of the pregnant patient.

Equal Protection of Law

This amendment would add language to the state Constitution providing that individuals cannot be denied rights on the basis of their “ethnicity, national origin, age, disability” or “sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy.”

Right to Abortion

This amendment would establish a constitutional right to the procedure. In the first trimester, there would be no restrictions. In the second trimester, regulations of abortion decisions would be allowed. In the third trimester, abortion would be regulated or prohibited except when medically necessary to save the life of the pregnant person.

Right to Abortion

This amendment would change the state Constitution to establish a right for individuals to have access to the procedure. It would also prohibit the government from punishing doctors or those who receive abortions.

Right to Abortion

This would amend the state Constitution to establish a fundamental right to the procedure until fetal viability or when needed to safeguard the health of the pregnant person. (If passed, this proposition will not automatically become law but will be placed on a general election ballot in 2026.)