{"id":3221,"date":"2022-08-03T12:15:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T06:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2022-08-03T12:15:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T06:15:01","slug":"kansas-voters-reject-anti-abortion-measure-in-first-state-vote-since-roe-v-wade-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/photonews\/2022\/08\/03\/news\/3221\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas voters reject anti-abortion measure in first state vote since Roe v. Wade reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Voters overwhelmingly struck down an anti-abortion measure at the ballots Tuesday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

KANSAS, U.S.A. Broadcasting News Corporation : Voters in the state of Kansas flocked to the polls Tuesday to strike down an anti-abortion ballot measure in a forceful rebuke of the Supreme Court\u2019s recent reversal of Roe v. Wade. The non-binding referendum would have cleared the way for lawmakers to ban or restrict abortion was the first time voters in the US were asked to weigh in on the right to choose since the high court overturned five decades of federal reproductive protections in June. Kansans voted against Amendment 2 by a margin of 62% to 38% with 76% of precincts reporting Tuesday night. The large margin came amid nationwide discontent over Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court\u2019s extreme decision to overturn Roe v. Wade put women\u2019s health and lives at risk. Tonight, the American people had something to say about it,\u201d President Joe Biden said in a statement. \u201cThis vote makes clear what we know: the majority of Americans agree that women should have access to abortion and should have the right to make their own health care decisions.\u201d Voting on the proposition was less bipartisan than usual because it was open to Kansas\u2019 more than half a million unaffiliated voters on a primary day when the state\u2019s registered voters were choosing gubernatorial candidates. If passed, the measure would have cleared the way for the state legislature to overturn a 2019 state Supreme Court decision that protected the procedure in the Kansas Bill of Rights. Proponents of the measure in Topeka wouldn\u2019t say if they would have moved to ban abortion if it had passed, as they sought to court votes from moderates who supported abortion restrictions, not outright prohibition. The Republican-led legislature had however spent decades pursuing new limitations, and lawmakers in ten other states in the Midwest and Deep South had recently implemented abortion bans, including neighboring Oklahoma and Missouri. Activists on both sides of the issue had spent $14 million lobbying voters in the state, including abortion providers and the anti-abortion Catholic Church. Chandler Alton, 28, of Overland Park, voted against Amendment 2. \u201cAbortion is health care and the government shouldn\u2019t have a say on whether women receive what could be life-saving care,\u201d Alton said, adding that she would support candidates who wouldn\u2019t \u201clet this kind of thing happen.\u201d Stephanie Kostreva, a 40-year-old Democrat from Olathe, voted to approve the measure due to her Christian religious beliefs. \u201cI\u2019m not full scale that there should never be an abortion,\u201d she said. \u201cI know there are medical emergencies and when the mother\u2019s life is in danger there is no reason for two people to die.\u201d Abortion is currently legal in Kansas until a woman is in her 22nd week of pregnancy. GOP-led efforts to pass tighter restrictions had been hampered in recent years by federal court decisions and Democratic leaders like Gov. Laura Kelly, who won her party\u2019s nomination Tuesday. Kelly will face off against newly minted Republican nominee Derek Schmidt in her bid for a second term. Further down the ballot, Secretary of State Scott Schwab fended off a Republican primary challenger who had parroted former President Donald Trump\u2019s false claims of election fraud in the 2020 election. Schwab had repeatedly refuted Trump\u2019s assertions. News collected from NEW YORK POST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KANSAS, U.S.A. Broadcasting News Corporation : Voters in the state of Kansas flocked to the polls Tuesday to strike down an anti-abortion ballot measure in a forceful rebuke of the Supreme Court\u2019s recent reversal of Roe v. Wade. The non-binding referendum would have cleared the way for lawmakers to ban or restrict abortion was the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3223,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions\/3223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}