Virginia voters will decide in November whether they want to enshrine the right to third-trimester abortions into the commonwealth’s constitution via ballot initiative, which would make it the most permissive state with respect to abortion in the Southeast.

Virginia is one of three states that will vote on enshrining a fundamental right to abortion and other reproductive health matters into their state constitutions in the midterm elections. Such ballot measures have remade abortion law across the United States since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.