With this atmosphere, together with the wrong pollsSkeptics and hopeful abortion rights advocates were both stunned by the extent of the amendment’s failure – a margin of nearly 18 percentage points, with 95% of the vote – in an initiative. which some predict will require days or even weeks of tally and recount to call.
More notable, perhaps, was the one who helped ensure that it failed – for example, Osage County, population about 15,700, supported the Republican candidate in all presidential elections after the year. 1964. Donald Trump win 71 percent of the 2020 vote is there. Yesterday, 56 percent of its voters rejected the amendment, with 93 percent of the vote report.
Although the red and blue maps show that the political fault line of our times runs between urban and rural areas, much of the countryside has joined cities like Wichita and Kansas. City to vote against the amendment. Fourteen Kansas counties that supported Mr. Trump in the 2020 presidential election, as well as all five counties for Joe Biden, saw majority votes against the amendment. Even in counties where most voted yes, a large number voted no.
Kansas’ current abortion regulations won’t change, at least for now. Kansas requires a 24-hour waiting period before having an abortion and getting permission from a parent or judge for minors who want the procedure. Service providers must share language with patients designed to encourage them to have an abortion. After 22 weeks of pregnancy, abortion is legal only to protect the life of the pregnant woman or when her health is seriously damaged.
Republican lawmakers’ effort to ban second-quarter abortion leading to the 2019 Kansas Supreme Court ruling of January 6 that the state Constitution guarantees “individual autonomy,” including the freedom to decide whether to continue with a pregnancy. The effective decision closed the door on new state legislation that would limit or end abortion rights without first amending the Constitution.
If they succeed in doing so with Tuesday’s voter initiative, the state’s Democratic governor, Laura Kelly, who will be re-elected this fall, is certain to veto the anti-government bill. next abortion. But the conservative majority of the legislature will most likely ignore the veto.
