Hot-Button Social Issues On Plate Across U.S. -- Ark. Approves Lottery; Mich. Backs Medical Marijuana; Calif. Weighs Gay-Marriage Ban

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Voters in Colorado and South Dakota rejected ballot measures Tuesday that could have led to sweeping bans of abortion, and Washington became only the second state - after Oregon - to offer terminally ill people the option of physician-assisted suicide.

In California, exit polls suggested a close race on a high- profile measure that would ban gay marriage - the first time such a vote has taken place in state where such unions are legal. Three other states seemed headed toward enacting measures that would curtail the rights of same-sex couples.

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Hot-Button Social Issues On Plate Across U.S. -- Ark. Approves Lottery; Mich. Backs Medical Marijuana; Calif. Weighs Gay-Marriage Ban

For the abortion rights movement, it was a day of relief and celebration.

The Colorado measure, which was defeated soundly, would have defined life as beginning at conception. Its opponents said it could lead to the outlawing of some types...

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