In a big victory for abortion rights, the proposed constitutional amendment in Kansas to remove protections has failed, the Cook Political Report projects. The results don’t even appear to be close.
People should not have to vote in a referendum to stop politicians from stripping them of their rights.
Politico: “It would have been a victory for Democrats and abortion rights activists if they’d even kept it close in Kansas.” “Instead, as the heavily Republican state rejected an anti-abortion constitutional amendment, it marked a political earthquake with the potential to reshape the entire midterm campaign.” “And if the politics of Roe proved fraught for Republicans in Kansas, it’s going to be even more treacherous for the GOP in swing-ier, more moderate swaths of the country.” Washington Post: “Polls had suggested that the measure could go either way, but Kansas is also a red state (albeit one with a Democratic governor). So what led to the somewhat surprising result? Motivated Democratic voters. Other than this ballot initiative, there weren’t many reasons for them to come out to vote in this primary. Yet Democratic turnout was up more than 60 percent compared to 2018, when Kansas Democrats were deciding whom should be their gubernatorial nominee.”
cons getting crushed in the midterms would depress their vote by disillusionment ("they're stealing it") & set the christofacist movement back several yrs. Alas, I'm not sure Roe is enough to drive dem numbers if polls on priorities are any indication.
Gallup: “Nearly four in 10 Americans, 39%, say they have felt the urge to organize or join a public demonstration… In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision eliminating abortion as a constitutional right and returning abortion policy decisions to individual state governments, 31% of those who have expressed a desire to protest name the abortion issue as their greatest motivation to do so.” “Beyond abortion, the issues now mentioned most as reasons to demonstrate are law enforcement or Black Lives Matter (22%), women’s rights (19%), civil or equal rights (11%), and government or political issues (10%).”
The point is that it’s none of your business. Who do you think you are or the state that you can tell a woman what to do with her body?