By Hayley Smith, Advocacy and Policy Associate, ACLU

Yesterday, voters in Albuquerque, New Mexico stood up for women and families, turning out in force to defeat a proposed ban on abortion after 20 weeks by a 10 point margin. Time and again, we've seen women and families raise their voices to oppose harmful restrictions on a woman's ability to make her own decisions about whether to continue a pregnancy. In Texas, the people's veto (when thousands of activists in the Senate gallery yelled that they didn't want abortion restrictions and) temporarily halted the harmful abortion ban that we continue to fight in court. In Mississippi, voters decisively defeated a so-called personhood measure that would have banned abortion. The people have voted down abortion bans and restrictions around the country from Colorado to South Dakota to Florida. It's clear that a majority of Americans agree that the decision to end a pregnancy belongs with a woman, her family, and her doctor.

This year, anti-choice forces coordinated a nationwide attack on reproductive rights. From Arkansas to North Dakota, Texas to North Carolina, the goal is clear: banning abortion completely.