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26 items of 1594 · updated Oct 28, 2026, 3:33 PM ET
This year's state votes include billionaire taxes, trans rights, abortion and voting rights, and at least $400 million has been spent on TV ads for ballot initiatives this cycle.
Source: Politico (politico.com)
Truthout reports Mike Rogers received a last-minute donation from an anti-abortion PAC and, while in office, sponsored four fetal personhood bills that aimed to ban nearly all abortions nationwide.
Source: Truthout (truthout.org)
Blue Ridge Abortion Fund reported an uptick in patients requesting assistance to obtain abortions, as Virginians prepare to reject or approve an amendment to enshrine reproductive rights.
Source: States Newsroom (News From The States) (newsfromthestates.com)
Abortion is on the ballot again in Missouri with Amendment 3, two years after voters approved an amendment enshrining the right to abortion care in the state constitution.
Source: ABC News (abcnews.com)
Louisiana 5th District candidates shared views on abortion and redistricting at an election forum; four said they opposed abortion rights and one said he would oppose a national abortion ban.
Source: States Newsroom (News From The States) (newsfromthestates.com)
Voters in Idaho, Nevada, and Virginia could soon vote to strengthen abortion protections, while Missouri voters face a ballot measure that would roll back rights they approved in 2024.
Source: Prism (prismreports.org)
Rewire News Group reports that abortion bans could push more pregnant teens into wedlock now that Roe v. Wade is dead.
Source: Rewire News Group (rewirenewsgroup.com)
Abortion rights are on the ballot in 4 states in the 2026 Midterms; voters in Missouri, Idaho, Virginia, and Nevada will decide the fate of abortion rights in their states.
Source: Truthout (truthout.org)
Mother Jones reports Missouri's GOP has a new strategy to ban abortion—attack trans kids; Dr. Jennifer Smith canvasses so her home state doesn't ban abortion again.
Source: Mother Jones (motherjones.com)
Missouri voters to weigh in on an anti-abortion ballot measure; Rewire News Group reports the Supreme Court deals a blow to the Trump administration's anti-trans agenda.
Source: Rewire News Group (rewirenewsgroup.com)
Voters in Idaho, Nevada and Virginia will consider ballot measures to protect abortion rights in the November 2026 election, while Missouri voters will vote on an antiabortion measure.
Source: Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)
Liechtenstein's hereditary prince Alois has used his veto for the first time in his reign to quash a parliament-approved bill aimed at bringing abortion laws in line with much of Europe.
Source: The Guardian: Abortion (theguardian.com)
University of Georgia students in the toss-up governor's race between Keisha Lance Bottoms and Rick Jackson say affordability beats abortion.
Source: Rewire News Group (rewirenewsgroup.com)
Voters in Virginia, Nevada, Missouri and Idaho will decide on reproductive rights in November, as a citizen-led initiative in Idaho seeks to restore some abortion rights.
Source: PBS NewsHour (pbs.org)
Voters will decide more than 140 ballot measures in 40 states next month, covering issues from abortion to voter ID to transgender rights.
Source: PBS NewsHour (pbs.org)
Poland's lower house of parliament approved two bills to loosen a near-total ban on abortions, which campaigners called a small-scale step.
Source: The Guardian: Abortion (theguardian.com)
A report finds people are already being prosecuted for pregnancy outcomes as charging people who have abortions with murder gains traction on the right.
Source: The Nation (thenation.com)
After Roe v Wade was overturned in 2022, abortion became a top issue in the 2022 and 2024 elections, but candidates and voters discuss it less this midterm year.
Source: The Guardian: Abortion (theguardian.com)
The Food and Drug Administration plans to hold off on releasing its safety review of mifepristone, the drug most often used in medication abortions, until March 2027.
Source: Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)
An analysis of federal policies on healthcare, jobs and equality describes the feminist stakes of the midterms, citing federal workforce reductions that undermine economic security for Black women.
Source: Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)