Nebraska prohibits abortion at 12 weeks, with stated exceptions for rape, incest, or “to avert her death or to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.”
Nevada
Nevada’s Question 6, titled the Right to Abortion Initiative, would establish a state constitutional right to an abortion, while allowing the government to regulate after the point of “fetal viability,” around 24 weeks. The initiative includes exceptions that “protect the life or health of the pregnant patient.”
In Nevada, abortion is currently legal up until this point. The ballot initiative would further secure these protections.
New York
In New York, Proposal 1, or the Equal Protection of Law Amendment, would add a clause into the state’s Bill of Rights, ensuring “against unequal treatment based on ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, and sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity and pregnancy.”
The initiative would also add protections “against unequal treatment based on reproductive healthcare and autonomy.”
In the Empire State, abortion is legal up to and including 24 weeks. After that point, there are exceptions for fetal viability or to protect the pregnant person’s life or health. Providers cannot be criminally prosecuted for performing abortions outside of this window, and minors do not need their parents’ permission to get birth control, abortion, prenatal care, or access to other reproductive healthcare.
Across what is considered a deep-blue state, the ballot initiative has been turned into a referendum on parental rights by anti-trans activists who seek to thwart the amendment.
As CBS reports, “The Coalition to Protect Kids is making an effort to dissuade people from voting yes on Prop 1, saying it opens the door for men to use women’s bathrooms, transgender adolescents to compete on sports teams that align with their gender identities, and minors to seek abortions without parental consent.”
South Dakota
South Dakota bans abortion in practically all cases, with no exceptions for rape or incest. (There is a “life of the mother” exception.) Those who perform abortions are “guilty of a Class 6 felony,” per state law.
The state’s Constitutional Amendment G, or the Right to Abortion Initiative, “establishes a constitutional right to an abortion and provides a legal framework for the regulation of abortion,” per the ballot language.
