Can Direct Democracy Save Abortion Rights?
Briefly

In Missouri, where abortions are completely prohibited except for health emergencies, Trump won easily, but so did an amendment enshrining reproductive rights in the state constitution.
A similar measure in Trump's home state of Florida, Amendment 4, won a slightly larger majority than Trump himself did-and yet the measure failed, because it did not reach Florida's sixty-per-cent threshold for passing constitutional amendments.
Florida provides a vivid microcosm of large swaths of the U.S., where solid majorities back both reproductive freedom and the man who helped take it away.
Kamala Harris's command of abortion rights was a strong issue in her campaign against Trump, reflecting voters' fury over the Dobbs decision.
Read at The New Yorker
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