The state’s Mount Rushmore ballot initiative would have protected abortion during the first trimester, or first thirteen weeks of pregnancy. It also provided protection during emergency situations, including in the event that a pregnancy in the third trimester poses a risk to the life of a pregnant person. The measure would have limited the regulations that can be imposed on second-trimester pregnancies, specifying that the government can only intervene in a way that is “reasonably related to the physical health of the pregnant woman.”

Nebraska had two concurrent abortion-related measures on their ballot, one for and one against. In the early hours of Wednesday, the associated press called the race in favor of the ban and reported that state residents voted in favor of an amendment banning abortion after the first three months of pregnancy — essentially affirming state law — while rejecting a proposal that would have guaranteed the right to abortion until viability .

The trio of states that failed to pass abortion initiatives on Tuesday signals a small shift toward an increasingly conservative view across the country. In the two years since the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wadehave won abortion efforts in every state where the issue has appeared on the ballot. But Florida’s efforts in particular encountered major difficulties: To be amended in the state constitution, it needed 60 percent of the vote to pass.