Proposition 1, also known as the Equal Rights Amendment, passed on Tuesday, codifying abortion rights in the New York state constitution by including “pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive health care and autonomy” as a protected class and barring discrimination based on an expanded set of conditions, including ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, and pregnancy. Although right-wing opponents of the measure took aim at its protection of transgender people, 63% of New Yorkers ultimately voted in the proposition’s favor.
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On Wednesday, a ballot measure aimed at enshrining abortion rights in Nevada’s state constitution also passed. Although voters will have to approve the measure in 2026 in order to actually amend the constitution, there’s still plenty of cause for celebration. “With these results, voters across party lines rejected misinformation and fearmongering to send an unequivocal message,” Lindsey Harmon, president of Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom, told the AP in a statement. “Decisions about abortion should be made by women, their families, and their medical providers—not politicians.”
