What abortion rights wins mean for 2024

+ climate targets off track; lessons from WWI US Edition - Today's top story: Abortion rights victories show this issue is unlikely to fade in 2024 elections − 3 things to know [View in browser]( US Edition | 10 November 2023 [The Conversation] [The Conversation]( Top headlines - [Erdogan’s shifting rhetoric on Israeli-Hamas war]( - [How to prevent astronauts from getting spaced out]( - [Test your news IQ with The Conversation quiz!]( Lead story In our world of fast-moving news, the Supreme Court’s monumental decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022 seems, to me at least, like a very long time ago. Yet states are still figuring out how to modify or double down on their own abortion laws in light of that ruling. And on Tuesday, Ohio was the seventh state since 2022 to adopt a ballot initiative on abortion. In this case, it will permanently enshrine the right to abortion in the state’s constitution. This and other wins for Democrats in the latest round of voting [signal a broader shift in American politics](, according to Boston University legal and health scholars Nicole Huberfeld and Linda C. McClain. It suggests that abortion is not just having a brief moment, or that previous wins for abortion rights advocates were flukes. Rather, abortion is likely to remain a top issue in the national spotlight leading into the 2024 general election. “Abortion increasingly matters to voters. And most voters do not want laws severely restricting abortion and other kinds of reproductive health care,” Huberfeld and McClain write. Today is a federal holiday for Veterans Day, originally known as Armistice Day after World War I. To look at the lasting impact of WWI, we’ve pulled together a collection of stories from our archive here. Amy Lieberman Politics + Society Editor Abortion rights supporters celebrate Issue 1 passing in Ohio on Nov. 7, 2023. Megan Jelinger/AFP via Getty Images [Abortion rights victories show this issue is unlikely to fade in 2024 elections − 3 things to know]( Nicole Huberfeld, Boston University; Linda C. McClain, Boston University The new constitutional amendment to protect the right to abortion in Ohio − as well as other wins for Democrats − shows the importance of ballot initiatives and focusing on abortion in elections. Environment + Energy - [UN’s ‘global stocktake’ on climate is offering a sober emissions reckoning − but there are also signs of progress]( Kate Hua-Ke Chi, Tufts University; Maulik Jagnani, Tufts University Many countries still plan to increase fossil fuel production in the coming years and are offering big subsidies. Negotiators have their work cut out for them when the COP28 climate summit begins. - [Maine voters don’t like their electric utilities, but they balked at paying billions to buy them out]( Theodore J. 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