This week marks one year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which previously guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion, returning the issue of abortion to individual states.
, which could be on the Pennsylvania ballot in 2023, would change a section of the state constitution to read: “This constitution does not grant the right to taxpayer-funded abortion or any other right relating to abortion.” Abortion is currently legal in Pennsylvania until the 24th week of pregnancy.
Additional abortion rights initiatives that advocates are hoping to get on the ballot in Republican-led states:is a proposed 2023 amendment that would enshrine reproductive rights in the Ohio constitution by adding a section stating that every person has a right to “make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one’s own pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion.
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