Ballot Measures

Business Resources Election 2024

For business leaders, understanding how changes in abortion access will affect workforce mobility, employee health benefits, and broader corporate social responsibility strategies, is critical this November.

About the 2024 state ballot measures on abortion

The confirmed states with abortion ballot measures: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, South Dakota

KFF Ballot Tracker: Status of Abortion-Related State Constitutional Amendment Measures for the 2024 Election

  • Proposition 139, an Arizona-based citizens’ initiative, will establish a fundamental right to abortion in the state’s constitution. Arizona for Abortion Access gathered more than double the required signatures.

    The campaign overcame numerous legal battles, including a challenge to the 200-word petition summary, which the Supreme Court unanimously rejected. Business leaders are also mobilizing to combat threats to election workers.

  • Colorado’s Amendment 79 advances access to abortion and would allow it to be a covered service under health insurance plans for state employees and enrollees in governmental insurance programs.

  • In April, the state Supreme Court ruled that the proposed amendment to limit government interference with abortion met the requirements for placement on the November ballot.

    Florida constitutional amendments require a 60% majority to pass, meaning Amendment 4 must secure this threshold to overturn the existing 6-week ban.

  • Amendment 1 is a legislatively referred amendment establishing fundamental access to reproductive healthcare is on the ballot in Maryland.

  • 380,000 signatures – more than double the required amount – were submitted in favor of Amendment 3 in Missouri, which would enshrine abortion access in the state constitution.

  • Constitutional Initiative 28 received more signatures than any other proposed ballot measure in state history.

    If passed, it would secure access to reproductive healthcare, including abortions, in the state constitution.  

  • There are two abortion measures on the ballot in Nebraska this election cycle: 

    Initiative 439 is a proactive measure that would protect some abortion access, with exceptions for the life and health of the pregnant person.

    Initiative 434 is an anti-abortion measure with no guaranteed protection for abortion access and is written to intentionally confuse voters about which measure actually protects abortion access.

    If both measures win over 50% of the vote, the measure with the most votes will take precedence.

  • Question 6 seeks to enshrine access to abortion in the Nevada constitution.

    If the measure is passed, it will need to appear again on the 2026 ballot.

    The campaign has launched weekly virtual phone banks and is actively engaging with the community by knocking on doors and talking to voters about this critical measure.

  • Proposal 1 seeks to enshrine abortion access through an expanded Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

    If Proposal 1 passes, it would create a new legal framework for expanding abortion access in New York that could be replicated at the federal level.

    Proposal 1 codifies protections in the state constitution so that no one will be discriminated against because of who they are, which is more expansive and robust than Roe was and serves as a critical test with potential national implications.

  • Amendment G would establish a right to some abortion care in the state constitution.

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