Sarah Smarsh: How voters held the line in Kansas

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Not so this time, even as anti-abortion lawmakers and their supporters tried every trick.
58% : Anti-abortion zealots from across the country descended on Dr. Tiller's clinic with disruptive mass protests during the summer of 1991.
45% : In the first state vote on abortion following the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, Kansans unequivocally batted down the state legislature's proposed amendment to remove the right to an abortion from the state Constitution.
42% : After 22 weeks of pregnancy, abortion is legal only to protect the woman's life or when her health is severely compromised.
39% : Passage of the amendment would have made way for the conservative state legislature to further limit or completely ban abortion, threatening the health, bodily autonomy and survival of not just pregnant Kansans but pregnant people who travel to the state for otherwise inaccessible care.
39% : The anti-abortion side used confusing language in the amendment, which suggested a yes vote would ban taxpayer funding of abortions -- a ban that already exists -- or allow for laws protecting victims of rape and incest, who already have legal access to abortion.
38% : They insisted they had no designs on passing a total ban on abortion, but The Kansas Reflector obtained audio from a meeting in which a state senator and amendment advocate promised to attempt to pass just such a ban.
37% : Neighboring Missouri and Oklahoma, as well as Texas and other nearby states, have banned or severely restricted abortion.

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