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Abortion Rights Initiatives Keep Winning. It Might Not Matter.

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Seven of 10 measures considered by voters passed on abortion rights Tuesday , including in states easily carried by Donald Trump .

Frida Ghitis: Abortion rights supporters can try again in states like Florida , Nebraska , and South Dakota .

She says it's a reminder of the limits of ballot initiatives for supporters of abortion rights.

Ghitis says there will be no way for voters to undo abortion bans without electing state lawmakers.

Republicans seem poised to capture the House and Senate , opening the possibility of a new federal law restricting abortion.

Even if Congress doesn’t advance legislation, a Trump Department of Justice could treat the 19th-century Comstock Act as a ban on mailing or receiving abortion-related items.

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