Florida’s abortion protection amendment would have passed in other states. But Florida has a higher bar for making constitutional change.

More than 6 million Florida voters, representing 57% of the vote, cast their ballot in favor of Amendment 4 on Election Day Tuesday. Yet, the abortion measure failed to pass despite 1.5 million more Floridians voting "yes" on the amendment rather than "no."

Florida’s voters were asked whether the state’s constitution should say that “no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.”

The ballot initiative in Florida would have allowed abortion until the point of foetal viability or about 24 weeks.

Voters in Nebraska narrowly approved a measure that leaves in place abortion restrictions Tuesday, as the state and Florida became the first states since Roe v. Wade was overturned where ballot measures broke against abortion rights—though four other states have so far voted to protect reproductive rights,

Abortion rights are on the ballot Tuesday in 10 states as voters continue to contend with the fallout of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade.

Voters in Missouri cleared the way to undo one of the nation's most restrictive abortion bans, while Florida defeated a similar constitutional amendment, leaving in place a law barring most abortions after the first six weeks of pregnancy.