“The Plan Backfired”: Kansas Voters Fiercely Reject Antiabortion Ballot Initiative

On Tuesday night, Kansans were the first to take abortion rights to the ballot box since the fall of Roe v. Wade, and they resoundingly voted against removing the right to abortion from the state constitution. By Wednesday morning’s count, the ballot initiative that would have ultimately allowed lawmakers to strip abortion protections, was losing by double digits. Abortion is protected under the Kansas state constitution for up to 22 weeks of pregnancy. The fear ahead of the vote was that if the amendment succeeded, the conservative-majority legislature—with the power to overrule a veto from Kansas’s Democratic governor Laura Kelly—would… Read Full Article