The groups promoting abortion-rights amendments on the ballots in nine states have outraised their opponents by more than 6 to 1 and are spending far more on ads. The majority of the money is being raised and spent around the question before voters in Florida. There's been an influx of campaign funding in South Dakota.
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Abortion-rights supporters have prevailed on all seven ballot measures that have gone before voters since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, which ended a nationwide right to abortion and opened the door for the bans and restrictions that are now being enforced in most Republican-controlled states.Florida is the behemoth in this year’s abortion ballot-measure campaigns.
According to an Associated Press analysis of state campaign disclosures, they’ve raised about $2 million compared with abortion-rights supporters’ $1 million. The anti-abortion campaign in South Dakota, like those elsewhere, is focused largely on portraying the amendment as too extreme. The Think Big money provided a new chance to do that.The Associated Press is the most trusted source of information on election night, with a history of accuracy dating to 1848.“South Dakotans don’t want extreme Chicago, San Francisco, and New York views tainting our great state,” Life Defense Fund spokesperson Caroline Woods said in a statement.
Nevada’s measure opponents have not reported any spending. To take effect, the amendment needs to pass this year and again in 2026., where a ballot measure doesn’t mention abortion specifically but would bar discrimination based on “pregnancy outcomes and reproductive healthcare and autonomy.”Liberal groups, including those that aren’t required to report who their donors are, are far more active in the campaigns than their anti-abortion counterparts.
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