2024年10月16日，亚利桑那州图森市一家非营利组织办公室内，张贴着支持堕胎权倡议的海报。
Posters supporting an abortion rights initiative at a non-profit organization's office in Tucson, Arizona, October 16, 2024.
在美国，捍卫堕胎权仍是一个高度敏感且两极分化的议题。这导致民主党在中期选举竞选期间，将这一传统左翼议题搁置一旁，转而聚焦购买力问题。公开表态支持堕胎权的声音寥寥无几。然而，过去四年来，美国在这一领域经历了大幅倒退，自2022年6月最高法院推翻《罗诉韦德案》判决——该判决曾在联邦层面保障堕胎权——以来，各州获得了在该问题上立法的完全权力，已有13个州实施严格的堕胎禁令，有时仅在强奸或威胁母亲生命的情况下设有例外。这些州大多位于美国东南部（路易斯安那州、密西西比州、阿拉巴马州、阿肯色州）。
In the United States, defending abortion rights has remained a highly charged and polarizing issue. This led the Democrats, during the midterm campaign, to set aside this traditional left-wing cause to focus instead on purchasing power. There were few public positions on abortion. Yet, for the past four years, the country has experienced a major rollback in this area, since the Supreme Court, in June 2022, overturned the Roe v. Wade ruling, which had protected abortion access at the federal level. Since then, states have had full authority to legislate on the matter, and 13 states have imposed strict abortion bans, sometimes with exceptions in cases of rape or threat to the mother's life. Most of these states are located in the southeastern US (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas).
即使在堕胎合法的地方，辩论依然激烈，由“支持选择权”和“支持生命权”组织共同推动，它们发起了公投提案。因此，在11月3日的中期选举中，四个州的选民就该问题进行了投票。在堕胎合法的弗吉尼亚州和内华达州，选民批准了将堕胎权写入州宪法的修正案——这是一种在政治多数派发生变化时保障堕胎权的方式。
Even in places where abortion is legal, debates have remained intense, fueled by both "pro-choice" and "pro-life" organizations, which have sponsored referendum proposals. Thus, during the November 3 midterms, voters in four states were asked to decide on this issue. In Virginia and Nevada, two states where abortion is allowed, voters approved amendments to enshrine abortion rights in their constitutions – a way to safeguard access if the political majority shifts.