Missouri and South Dakota are the latest Republican-controlled states with strict abortion restrictions that could allow residents to vote this November to enshrine reproductive rights.

Pro-choice advocates in both states recently announced that they collected enough signatures — more than 380,000 in Missouri — to ensure residents can vote to amend their constitutions to include the right to obtain an abortion and other essential care.

“They signed away our rights to our bodies and they continue to legislate against our democracy, (but) we take back that right through the initiative petition process with the thousands of pages of petition sheets we have just turned into the Secretary of State,” Kennedy Moore, the digital organizing manager at Abortion Action Missouri, said in a statement on social media.

Across the state, nearly 2,000 volunteers collected signatures across 114 counties, amassing more than double the number needed to get on the ballot.

Dakotans for Health, the group leading the ballot initiative in South Dakota, announced late last week that they had collected 55,000 signatures — about 20,000 more than the minimum requirement — to allow residents to vote on abortion access in the state. The measure would prohibit interference with a woman’s reproductive rights in the first trimester of pregnancy, a significant change from the state’s total ban except if the pregnant person’s life is endangered.

“The women of South Dakota get the job done,” Dakotans4Health said in a Facebook post. “Our freedom amendment (will) overturn the extreme South Dakota abortion ban and reinstate the essential protections of Roe v. Wade.”

Twenty-two states have abortion bans or restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. At least 10 other states have pushed to make abortion a voting issue on the ballot, and are expected to increase Democratic voter turnout in this presidential election.

It’s unclear how many states will vote on abortion rights this November, with some states further along in the process than others, according to the Associated Press. California, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, Ohio and Vermont have already voted to protect reproductive rights.

The signatures to put the abortion question on the Missouri ballot were collected in less than three months, according to Planned Parenthood Advocates in Missouri. The petition also called for access to miscarriage care, in vitro fertilization and birth control.

“Missourians are responding with historic enthusiasm to our effort to put a constitutional amendment protecting reproductive freedom on the ballot and end the state’s total abortion,” said Rachel Sweet, the campaign manager for Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, in a statement after the group collected 19,000 signatures in one day, shattering a state record.

“Missourians of all backgrounds and political persuasions are joining us – because the vast majority of Missourians agree that we should trust patients and their doctors to decide what’s right for their unique situation, not politicians.”

Other states have also made recent efforts to protect abortion and reproductive rights.

In Florida, the coalition Floridians Protecting Freedom collected more than 1 million signatures — upwards of 300,000 more than the requirement — to place a ballot measure that would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. Nevada reproductive rights advocates received the go-ahead in late January to circulate a petition to ensure residents have the right to vote on the issue.

Arkansas, Maryland, Montana, and Nebraska are among other states that have kicked off campaigns or started gathering signatures for proposed constitutional amendments that would protect access to abortion and reproductive care.