Idaho Rejects Abortion-Rights Measure as Missouri, Nevada and Virginia Vote the Other Way
Abortion measures split one to three in the Nov. 3 election, while measures keeping girls' school sports for girls passed in Arizona and Nebraska and led in Colorado and Washington.
See where this is ›BOISE, Idaho —
Idaho voters turned down a proposed Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act in the Nov. 3 election, while voters in Missouri, Nevada and Virginia came down on the side of abortion access, Baptist Press reported. Of the four states with abortion questions on the ballot, Idaho was the only one where the pro-life side prevailed.
See where this is ›In Idaho, about 56 percent voted no, 397,585 to 312,644, according to the state's election website. The measure would have made abortion legal before fetal viability, and after viability in limited cases, starting in January. Baptist Press said Southern Baptist leaders had urged a no vote.
Missouri voters rejected Constitutional Amendment 3, 1,173,172 to 941,065, according to the Missouri Secretary of State's office. It would have outlawed abortion and barred gender-transition procedures for minors. Abortion remains legal there under the constitutional right voters adopted in 2024.
Nevada's Ballot Question No. 6, which writes a fundamental right to abortion until fetal viability into the state constitution, passed with 63.3 percent, 601,533 to 348,347. In Virginia, Constitutional Amendment Question 1 passed 62.39 percent to 37.61 percent, 2,181,695 to 1,315,442. It protects personal decisions on prenatal care, childbirth, birth control, abortion, miscarriage care and fertility care, while still allowing limits on abortion in the third trimester except when the mother's health is at risk or the pregnancy cannot survive.
Measures that keep biological males off girls' school teams did better. Nebraska's Initiative Measure 442 passed with 68 percent, 491,716 to 230,919, and Arizona's Proposition 218 passed with 58.9 percent. In Colorado, Proposition 134 led with 52.37 percent in incomplete returns, and in Washington, Initiative IL26-638 led 56.76 percent to 43.24 percent with an estimated 555,504 ballots still to count.
Colorado voters were also narrowly backing a ban on sex-change surgeries for minors, 51.88 percent to 48.12 percent in early returns. In Wisconsin, an amendment that would have limited the government's power to close churches during emergencies such as COVID failed 52 percent to 48 percent, as Watchman News reported earlier this week.
What we don't know yet: Final counts in Colorado and Washington were not complete when Baptist Press published its results, so those outcomes could still change.
