How the votes were cast in ten US states: Supporters of abortion rights won in seven, lost in three

Supporters of abortion rights triumphed today in voting on constitutional amendments in seven US states, but lost battles in three states where abortion bans definitely remain in force.

Missouri, by the votes of a simple majority of voters, became the first American federal state to include the right to abortion in its Constitution, with the fact that it will have to sue to request the repeal of the law by which the Republican majority in the local parliament prohibited abortion, except in the case of urgent medical circumstances .

Amendments related to the right to abortion have been adopted in Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Montana, Nevada and New York, in addition to the deeply conservative Missouri.

They have not, however, been adopted in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota.

Nevada's passage is preliminary, and will have to be passed again in 2026 to take effect.

In New York, the prohibition of discrimination in the right to abortion - based on the "outcome of the pregnancy" - was included in the Constitution.

Abortion has become a fierce political issue in America since in 2022 the Supreme Court, under the influence of a conservative majority of judges, revoked women's right to abortion, which, based on the court precedent of Roe v. Wade from 1973, enjoyed at the US level.

With that act, the question of the legality of abortion was transferred to the federal state level, and two dozen of those with conservative, Republican administrations almost immediately introduced restrictions on the right to abortion or its complete ban, as in Missouri.

Initiatives to repeal those bans were included on the ballots in 10 US states, as part of the general elections in the US that were held yesterday.

They were won by the Republican candidate for the US president, Donald Trump, who counted among his successes in the first term the election of conservative judges, who voted on the Supreme Court to abolish the federal right to abortion.

Although he boasted that he had achieved this, Trump did not join calls to ban abortion nationwide, and said that as president, if re-elected, he would refuse to sign federal legislation requiring such a thing, and said is that the issue is best left to the individual states.