Some US states extend abortion rights while Florida measure fails

Initiatives come two years after Supreme Court overturned right to procedure

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Residents in a handful of US states extended or enshrined into law the right to an abortion on Nov. 5, while voters in Florida defeated a measure that would have increased access.

The ballot initiatives, which ran in parallel to the US presidential election, come more than two years after the Supreme Court overturned the federal right to the procedure, leaving the matter up to the states.

A total of 10 states had measures on the ballot - nearly all giving voters the chance to expand access or enshrine abortion rights into law.

In Arizona, Colorado, and Maryland, voters cast their ballots favorably for pro-abortion rights measures, while several other states' results had yet to be called.