A petition to put abortion access on the ballot in West Virginia sits in the empty House of Delegates chamber on June 21, 2024, at the State Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. Submitted by the minority Democrats during a special session of the state Legislature in May, the petition was sent to the Health and Human Resources Committee for consideration. Republican leadership declined to take the matter up. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)
A petition to put abortion access on the ballot in West Virginia sits in the empty House of Delegates chamber on June 21, 2024, at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. Submitted by the minority Democrats during a special session of the state Legislature in May, the petition was sent to the Health and Human Resources Committee for consideration. Republican leadership declined to take the matter up. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)
FILE - Abortion-rights protesters cheer at a rally following the United States Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, federally protected right to abortion, outside the state capitol in Lansing, Mich., June 24, 2022. Voters in several states have used the citizen initiative process to protect access to abortion and other reproductive rights in the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a nationwide right to abortion. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
FILE - People gather in the parking lot of the Hamilton County Board of Elections as people arrive for early in-person voting in Cincinnati, Nov. 2, 2023. Voters in several states have used the citizen initiative process to protect access to abortion and other reproductive rights in the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a nationwide right to abortion. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
A petition to put abortion access on the ballot in West Virginia sits on a table in the empty House of Delegates Health and Human Resources Committee office on June 21, 2024 at the State Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. Submitted by the minority Democrats during a special session of the state Legislature in May, the petition was sent to the Health and Human Resources Committee for consideration. Republican leadership declined to take the matter up. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)