On Tuesday, Kansas residents overwhelmingly voted against an amendment to their state constitution that likely would have paved the way for the state’s majority-Republican legislature to implement an abortion ban in the near future.
was overturned in June. More than $12 million were spent by both sides in the race.than the rest of the country, praised the outcome of the vote., chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood Great Plains. “I’m so proud to be able to go to work tomorrow and talk to my staff and give everyone a hug.”, campaign manager with Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, the organization that spearheaded support for the “no” vote. “But we didn’t despair.
Several factors were indeed working against organizers hoping to protect abortion freedoms. The wording of the ballot itself, including telling voters that a “yes” vote would ban “government funding of abortion” – a rule that’s already being implemented in the state and that wouldn’t be changed by supporting a “no” vote.
Abortion advocates also criticized the timing of the ballot initiative. Rather than holding the referendum during the general election in November, the vote took place during the partisan primary election this week.
Though basic human rights, including reproductive rights, should not be subject to a vote, polling on the issue of abortion shows that it is supported across the entirety of the country.
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