CNA Staff, Dec 27, 2023 / 06:00 am
Voters in Maryland will take part in a statewide referendum next November to decide whether to make abortion access a constitutional right there.
A simple majority will be required to pass the amendment when voters head to the polls on Nov. 5, 2024.
The bill to propose the amendment for a referendum was passed by the state Legislature with the necessary three-fifths majority in both chambers in May.
The vote comes as a wave of states attempt to expand abortion access by amending their constitutions following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, which ended several decades of the constitutional guarantee to abortion.