{"id":1579944,"date":"2022-07-30T02:18:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T06:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1579944"},"modified":"2022-07-30T02:18:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T06:18:50","slug":"kansas-aug-2-value-them-both-vote-first-of-at-least-6-abortion-measures-on-2022-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kansas-aug-2-value-them-both-vote-first-of-at-least-6-abortion-measures-on-2022-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Aug. 2 \u2018Value Them Both\u2019 Vote First of at Least 6 Abortion Measures on 2022 Ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkansas-aug-2-value-them-both-vote-first-of-at-least-6-abortion-measures-on-2022-ballots%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1579944&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kansas\">Kansas<\/a> \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/valuethemboth.com\">Value Them Both<\/a>\u2019 amendment goes before Sunflower State voters as a special election on their Aug. 2 primary ballots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The ballot measure asks voters to remove access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-abortion\">abortion<\/a> as a right guaranteed under the Kansas Constitution in a 2019 state Supreme Court ruling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It is the nation\u2019s first public referendum on abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 June 24 decision repealed its 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling and kicked abortion regulation back to the states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As such, the Kansas \u2018Value Them Both\u2019 special election is being intensely watched nationwide; pro\/con campaigns have collectively spent more than $13 million, polls are knotted, elections officials predict record turnouts for a midterm primary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Voters in at least five other states, maybe six, will also see abortion-related ballot measures in 2022, but not until November\u2019s general elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The six, perhaps seven, 2022 statewide referendums are the most relating to abortion for a single year in the nation\u2019s history, according to Ballotpedia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-california\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-vermont\">Vermont<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-michigan\">Michigan<\/a> voters will cast ballots this fall on proposed constitutional amendments that would enshrine access to abortion as a right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As in Kansas on Aug. 2, in November <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-montana\">Montana<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kentucky\">Kentucky<\/a> voters will be presented with proposals that curb abortion rights. Sponsors of a proposed restrictive abortion measure in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-colorado\">Colorado<\/a> have until Aug. 8 to garner the needed signatures to qualify.<\/p>\n<p> Abortion-Related Measures in November <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Abortion-related measures that will be on November battles include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">* California Proposition 1: The proposed \u2018Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment\u2019 was placed on the Nov. 8, 2022 ballot by two-thirds votes of both chambers of the state Legislature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The amendment proclaims the state cannot \u201cdeny or interfere with an individual\u2019s reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions,\u201d including decisions to have an abortion or to choose or refuse contraceptives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas \u2018Value Them Both\u2019 amendment goes before Sunflower State voters as a special election on their Aug. 2 primary ballots. The ballot measure asks voters to remove access to abortion as a right guaranteed under the Kansas Constitution in a 2019 state Supreme Court ruling. 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