Idaho rejects measure to repeal one of nation’s strictest abortion bans

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Idaho voters rejected a citizen-led ballot initiative to roll back the state’s near-total prohibition on abortion, keeping in place one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country.

Proposition 1, the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, failed by a vote of 56% to 44% with 95% of the vote counted. The Associated Press called the race at 2:35 a.m. Wednesday.

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