Her Team Helped Beat Back Kansas' Abortion Ban. Here's What She Wants Other States to Know

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : He ran our state budget into the ground, and there were a lot of cuts to public schools, and Women for Kansas established themselves as a group that focused on public education.
51% : Polling last year showed over 60 percent of Kansans support access to abortion.
47% : In the wake of the Dobbs decision, and the catastrophic cascade of state bans that followed, the Kansas vote took on an even greater significance: it would be the first time voters themselves would get to weigh in on the court's decision to end Roe and fifty years of federal protection for abortion.
47% : And within that women obviously have the right to make decisions about their health care, pregnancy, and to access abortion.
45% : A New York Times analysis after Kansas' vote suggested that if every state put it to vote, abortion would be legal in 40 of 50 states.
45% : And we ran an ad about it, and it never mentioned the word 'abortion,' but it was all about medical privacy and how he had violated that.
44% : What limited polling there had been of the race indicated it would be close: pollsters forecasted about 47 percent of voters were in favor of amending the constitution to eliminate the right to abortion, 43 opposed, and 10 percent unsure.
44% : You've got to be willing to have conversations with people across the political spectrum, in a way that allows them to have their own personal beliefs about the issue but still be willing to show up and vote to protect the rights of Americans to make decisions for themselves about abortion.
42% : When SB8 passed, people and organizations really did see that there was a threat to people's personal autonomy and people's ability to make health care decisions and decisions about abortion.
41% : For the last eight months, All had been working, as part of Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, to defeat an effort to strip the right to abortion from the state constitution.
38% : And I think it made it much more difficult for people who supported the amendment to say that this wasn't about a ban [on abortion].
37% : Voters do not see abortion as a partisan issue.
37% : Because even if you were only partly paying attention, you knew for the past 30 years, they were trying to eliminate abortion.
31% : I don't think they accounted for the fact that the vast majority of Kansans support access to access to abortion, so they couldn't sell it as a ban on abortion because that's unpopular, so they spent all this time talking about how it wasn't a ban.
25% : Already, some are floating the idea of popular referendums on abortion in states like Texas, where abortion is virtually outlawed.

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