Voters in eight states chose to expand access to reproductive health care

Voters in seven states in the 2024 election approved measures to protect access to abortion, continuing a streak nationwide that brought together voters from both parties and in red, blue and purple states to support reproductive freedom.

Abortion is an LGBTQ issue. LGBTQ people can and do become pregnant and need reproductive health care. The same activists pushing anti-abortion laws also fought and failed against marriage equality and against LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections. (author introduction)