Republican lawmakers in Kansas fail to get an antiabortion amendment to the state constitution on the ballot. Abortion opponents will likely try again.
last week. Supporters were four votes short of the two-thirds majority needed in the 125-member House, even after supporters kept the roll open for five hours to build pressure for yes votes.
The Kansas Supreme Court ruling came in a state where the Republican-controlled Legislature has had solid anti-abortion majorities for two decades and immediately sparked intense criticism of the court. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, elected in 2018, supports abortion rights, but lawmakers enacted a raft of new restrictions under Kelly’s two GOP predecessors.“It will keep our regulations in place that we have for the safety and health of mothers and the unborn,” said Rep.
Kansans for Life, the state’s most influential antiabortion group, announced as House members were voting that it would oppose expansion of the state’s Medicaid health coverage for the poor until the amendment goes on the ballot.Supporters of the amendment argued that Kansas faced the prospects of unregulated abortion. They even suggested that the result would be a return to dangerous “back alley” clinics.
Last year’s Kansas Supreme Court ruling declared that the state’s Bill of Rights grants a “natural right of personal autonomy” that includes the right to “control one’s own body,” making access to abortion a “fundamental” right.those rights “foundational to who we are as a state and as a nation” and predicted that adopting the amendment would return Kansas “to the Dark Ages.”
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