{"id":1587531,"date":"2022-08-03T17:03:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T21:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1587531"},"modified":"2022-08-03T17:03:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T21:03:32","slug":"kansas-voters-reject-anti-abortion-constitutional-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kansas-voters-reject-anti-abortion-constitutional-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Voters Reject Anti-Abortion Constitutional Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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-voters-reject-anti-abortion-constitutional-amendment%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=1587531&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>A majority of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kansas\">Kansas<\/a> voters have voted against a ballot measure\u00a0that would have allowed lawmakers in the state to ban\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-abortion\">abortion<\/a>. The Aug. 2 vote drew intense interest as the nation\u2019s first public referendum on abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision in June.<\/p>\n<p>On the\u00a0\u201cValue Them Both\u201d proposed amendment to the state constitution, about 59\u00a0percent voted \u201cno\u201d to\u00a041 percent who voted \u201cyes,\u201d\u00a0with 99 percent of the expected vote reporting on Aug. 3, ABC\u00a0News reported.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal had generated more than $13 million in campaign spending by proponents and critics and dramatically boosted turnout for a primary ballot that otherwise featured few competitive races.<\/p>\n<p>The public referendum on the measure is the culmination of years of lobbying by Kansas Right-to-Life organizations that were dealt a blow in 2019, when the state\u2019s Supreme Court overturned the 2015 \u201cKansas Unborn Child Protection From Dismemberment Abortion Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That 2019 decision determined Section 1 of the state Constitution\u2019s Bill of Rights protects a woman\u2019s access to abortion, making Kansas one of 10 states where court rulings granted a right to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cValue Them Both\u201d amendment stated it would \u201creserve to the people of Kansas, through their elected state legislators, the right to pass laws to regulate abortion, including, but not limited to, in circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or when necessary to save the life of the mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Value Them Both coalition argued that establishing legislative authority through a constitutional amendment was necessary to ensure the Sunflower State doesn\u2019t become \u201ca destination state for the abortion industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the coalition and proponents of the measure spent $4.69 million on messaging to stress that adoption of the measure merely returns abortion regulation to state legislators.<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas vote on the \u201cValue Them Both\u201d amendment follows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of Kansas voters have voted against a ballot measure\u00a0that would have allowed lawmakers in the state to ban\u00a0abortion. The Aug. 2 vote drew intense interest as the nation\u2019s first public referendum on abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision in June. On the\u00a0\u201cValue Them Both\u201d proposed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}