Proposition 1, also called the Equal Rights Modification, handed on Tuesday, codifying abortion rights within the New York State Structure by together with “being pregnant, being pregnant outcomes and reproductive well being care and autonomy” as a protected class and barring discrimination based mostly on an expanded set of situations together with ethnicity, age, incapacity, sexual orientation, gender id, and being pregnant. Though right-wing opponents of the measure took purpose at its protection of transgender folks, 63% of New Yorkers finally voted within the proposition’s favor.
Nevada
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On Wednesday, a poll measure aimed toward enshrining abortion rights in Nevada’s State Structure additionally handed. Though voters should approve the measure in 2026 with the intention to truly amend the structure, there’s nonetheless loads of trigger for celebration. “With these outcomes, voters throughout get together strains rejected misinformation and fear-mongering to ship an unequivocal message: selections about abortion ought to be made by girls, their households, and their medical suppliers—not politicians,” Lindsey Harmon, president of Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom, told the AP in a statment.
