Florida rejects abortion rights measure as results in six states still to come
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Americans in 10 US states voted on Tuesday on whether to enshrine the right to abortion into their state constitutions.
In Florida, an effort to roll back a six-week ban fell short, but Colorado, New York and Maryland all passed measures to amend their state constitutions to protect abortion rights and cement the blue states’ status as abortion havens. Other states, such as Missouri and Arizona, still offer additional opportunities to overturn bans that state legislatures passed after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade in June 2022, doing away with the federal right to an abortion.
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