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U.S. NEWS Thursday 10 November 2022
Abortion supporters win in conservative, liberal states

By Lindsay Whitehurst sure was originally consid-
Associated Press ered a conservative vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abor- driver. But after the Roe de-
tion rights supporters won cision, abortion-rights sup-
in the four states where ac- porters raised nearly $1.5
cess was on the ballot Tues- million to fight it.
day, as voters enshrined it Thousands of voters who
into the state constitution cast their ballots for Repub-
in battleground Michigan lican Sen. Rand Paul split
as well as blue California with the party on the abor-
and Vermont and dealt a tion ballot measure, returns
defeat to an anti-abortion showed.
measure in deep-red Ken- At a elementary school
tucky. in Simpsonville, a small
In all, it was a dramatic il- town outside of Louisville,
lustration of how the U.S. 71-year-old Republican
Supreme Court’s decision voter Jim Stewart said he
in June to eliminate the na- voted for Paul, but chose
tionwide right to abortion no on the amendment,
has galvanized voters who even though he’s opposed
support women’s right to to abortion.
choose. The court’s June Supporters react as preliminary results come in for Michigan Proposal 3 on Election Day, Tuesday, “You got to have a little
decision has led to near-to- Nov. 8, 2022, in Detroit, Mich. Abortion rights supporters won in the four states where access was choice there,” he said.
tal bans in a dozen Repub- on the ballot Tuesday, as voters enshrined it into the state constitution in battleground Michigan as In Michigan, supporters of
lican-governed states and well as blue California and Vermont and dealt a defeat to an anti-abortion measure in deep-red the push to protect abor-
Kentucky.
animated races around (Ryan Sun/Ann Arbor News via AP) tion rights collected more
the country up and down signatures than any other
the ballot. is not a partisan issue,” said About 6 in 10 also say the abortion rights. Meanwhile, ballot initiative in state his-
The Kentucky result spurned Nancy Northup, president Supreme Court’s abortion staunchly anti-abortion tory to get it before the vot-
the state’s Republican-led the Center for Reproduc- decision made them dissat- GOP governors in Georgia, ers. It puts a definitive end
Legislature, which has im- tive Rights, in a statement. isfied or angry, compared Florida and Texas easily to a 1931 ban on abortion
posed a near-total ban on “People are energized and with fewer who say they won their contests. that had been blocked in
abortion and put the pro- they do not want politicians were happy or satisfied. Stephen Billy of Susan B. court but could have been
posed state constitutional controlling their bodies and Still, the nationwide elec- Anthony Pro-Life America revived.
amendment on the ballot. futures.” tion results Tuesday reflect- rejected any suggestion On Michigan State Uni-
The outcome echoed what Nationally, about two- ed how voters’ views on that the overall midterm versity’s campus, junior
happened in another red thirds of voters say abortion abortion rights can play outcome reflected a surge Devin Roberts said students
state, Kansas, where voters should be legal in most or out in complicated ways. of support for abortion seemed “fired up” and that
in August rejected chang- all cases, according to AP By narrow margins, Wiscon- rights. He acknowledged he had seen lines of voters
ing that state’s constitution VoteCast, an expansive sin voters re-elected their that abortion opponents spilling out of the school’s
to let lawmakers tighten re- survey of over 90,000 vot- pro-choice Democratic were outspent in the key polling places throughout
strictions or ban abortions. ers across the country. Only governor and an anti-abor- ballot-measure campaigns the day. The ballot mea-
“As we saw in Kansas ear- about 1 in 10 say abortion tion GOP senator. Kansas and needed to review their sure was one of the main
lier this year, and in many should be illegal in all cas- re-elected a Democratic strategies. drivers of the high turnout,
other states last night, this es. governor who supports The Kentucky ballot mea- he said.q

CDC to conduct health study at polluted former Army base

By Martha Mendoza, Ju- 1980s and 1990s later de- Army veteran Julie Akey,
liet Linderman and Jason veloped rare and terminal who lived at Fort Ord and
Dearen blood cancers. was diagnosed in 2016 at
Associated Press In a letter last Friday to Rep. the age of 46 with multiple
(AP) - Federal health offi- Katie Porter, D-Calif., the di- myeloma, a rare blood
cials are conducting a new rector of the CDC’s Agen- cancer, said she is “confi-
study to determine whether cy for Toxic Substances and dent that science will prove
veterans once stationed at Disease Registry, Patrick our high rate of cancers
a now-shuttered California Breysse, wrote that “there and illnesses are not a co-
military base were exposed are sufficient data and sci- incidence.”
to dangerously high levels entific reasons for ATSDR Akey started a Facebook
of cancer-causing toxins. to re-evaluate health risks group for Fort Ord veterans
The decision by the Centers related to historical drink- with cancer. The number
for Disease Control and Pre- ing water exposures at Fort has grown to nearly 1,000.
vention comes nine months Ord.” Porter had asked for In 1990, four years before it
after an Associated Press a new study in February, began the process of clos- Labeled with asbestos and lead warnings, sheeting covers
rubble from demolished barracks at Fort Ord on Thursday, April
investigation found that two days after the AP pub- ing as an active military 29, 2021, in Fort Ord, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)CDC to
drinking water at Fort Ord lished its story. base, Fort Ord was added conduct health study at polluted former Army base
contained toxic chemicals The agency did not im- to the Environmental Pro-
and that hundreds of veter- mediately respond to a tection Agency’s list of that pollution were doz- cer, that were found in the
ans who lived at the central request seeking further de- the most polluted places ens of chemicals, some base’s drinking water and
California coast base in the tails about the new study. in the nation. Included in now known to cause can- soil.q