Anti-abortion advocates are touting their victory in keeping Idaho’s strict abortion prohibition in place after losing ground in three other states amid the seismic Democratic Party victories nationwide in the midterm elections.

Idahoans voted by a comfortable 12 percentage points to keep a near-total abortion prohibition on elective abortion on Tuesday. But the anti-abortion side failed resoundingly in referenda in Virginia, Missouri, and Nevada.

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