Anti-choice groups and their allies consistently use states as laboratories to test new ways to undermine a woman's right to choose.

Since 2005, we have made financial contributions and provided strategic support (including grassroots mobilization) to NARAL state affiliates and helped defeat seven anti-choice ballot measures in the following four states:  

• Voters in South Dakota rejected attempts to ban abortion in 2006 and 2008, scoring pro-choice victories in one of the nation's most politically conservative states.
  
  
• In 2008, Colorado voters rejected by a margin of 73 to 27 percent a far-reaching ballot measure (a so-called "personhood" proposal) that would have banned abortion by establishing legal protections for fertilized eggs.
  
  
• Californians have rejected three efforts (in 2005, 2006, and 2008) to enact a dangerous and divisive parental-notification mandate in their state. Oregonians rejected a similar measure in 2006.