SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade's constitutional right to abortion in June, reproductive freedom was on the ballot in several states across the country.
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Post election day, California, Michigan, and Vermont voters affirmed abortion rights, while Kentucky voters shot down a measure that would have amended the state constitution to keep abortion illegal.
Abortion is already illegal in Kentucky due to a trigger law, but the failure of the measure to amend the constitution is a clear message, Laurie Levenson, law professor at Loyola Law School, told KCBS Radio.
"(The measure) wanted to put it in the state constitution and say that there's affirmably no right to an abortion and people rejected that, so I think what it says is… that you have the right of the people to say we want the right to abortion, even though we're a very conservative state," she said.
Levenson explained she believes the results of the 2022 elections indicate a movement for the right for women to choose. "It doesn't mean that you're going to have abortions across all the conservative states and the country, but there is a message," she said.
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