After Kansas voters decisively rejected a bid to remove abortion protections from its state constitution earlier this week, researchers and activists say state lawmakers are likely to continue efforts to restrict access to abortion.
August 05, 2022, 5:10 PMAbortion-rights supporters react as early polls showed that voters rejected a state constitutional amendment that would have declared there is no right to abortion, at a Kansans for Constitutional Freedom election watch party in Topeka, Kansas, Aug. 2, 2022.to remove abortion protections from its state constitution earlier this week, researchers and activists say state lawmakers are likely to continue efforts to restrict access to abortion.voted to overturn Roe v.
As of Thursday, ABC News reported that 59% of Kansas voters voted "No" to repealing the right to abortion access in the state's constitution. Researchers told ABC News the margin by which the vote was won was surprising. "We have seen lawmakers hostile to abortion rights in Kansas and other states, continuously enact unconstitutional abortion bans and restrictions," Smith said.
"What we'd seen for the past decade are four other states that adopted similar measures -- in Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee and West Virginia -- and all of them were approved by voters," Nash said.
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