Abortion-Rights Supporters Turn Out for ‘Historic’ Win in Kansas
Abortion rights supporters react to the failed constitutional amendment proposal at the Kansas Constitutional Freedom Primary Election Watch Party in Overland Park, Kansas on Aug. 2.
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The unusual move of putting an abortion question on a primary election ballot backfired Tuesday when voters in Kansas rejected a proposal to change the state Constitution to declare there’s no right to an abortion.
It was the first referendum on abortion since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and said each state should set its own abortion policy.