This story was written by one of Teen Vogue's 2024 Student Correspondents, a team of college students covering the election cycle from key battleground states. Originally published on September 4, this story is being updated with election results as of November 5.
Fourteen states across the country have instituted bans on abortion at every stage of pregnancy after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, with several more severely restricting access to reproductive care.
At the most recent State of the Union, President Joe Biden called on Congress to restore abortion protections in federal law. Yet Democrats’ slim margins in the Senate make that unlikely, reports Politifact’s Amy Sherman. Meanwhile, Donald Trump told TIME that if he won the 2024 election, he’d leave it up to individual states to decide if they wanted to monitor pregnant people and prosecute them for seeking abortions. Trump applauded the Supreme Court’s decision to reverse Roe at the first presidential debate last month.
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