When Kansas voters head to the polls on Tuesday, they will be asked to decide whether the state’s Constitution should continue to protect abortion rights.
indicated a close vote on the ballot measure. The Kansas City-based firm co/efficient found that 47% of respondents said they planned to vote “yes” on the question, while 43% said they planned to vote “no.” Ten percent were undecided.A 2019 ruling by the Kansas Supreme Court said the state’s Constitution guaranteed the right to have an abortion, in an opinion that also struck down a slate of proposed abortion restrictions.
It also would affirm that “the people, through their elected state representatives and state senators, may pass laws regarding abortion,” something lawmakers are limited in doing now based on the 2019 court ruling. “Everything about how this effort was crafted was done so in a way that obscures that end goal,” said Ashley All, a spokeswoman for Kansas for Constitutional Freedom, a pro-abortion group that has been helping to lead efforts to oppose the amendment.Abortion in Kansas is legal up until about the 22nd week of pregnancy, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
Abortion rights proponents argue that with Roe gone, the stakes are far too high to put the issue in the hands of state GOP lawmakers. They point to several recently proposed bills that would restrict or ban abortion — includingin March — that they say would certainly be re-introduced in upcoming state Legislature sessions if the Kansas ballot initiative is successful.
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