Kansas residents retain the right to abortion. The state is also still paying for the intervention. Voters voted Tuesday against a bill that would remove the right to abortion from the state’s constitution.
The proposed amendment to the law was voted down by a large majority. 65 percent of voters voted against. Kansas, which is located in the middle of the United States, is considered a conservative state, writes news agency AP. The state is strongly linked to the anti-abortion movement.
Kansas voters were the first in the country to speak directly about the right to abortion in their state. At the end of June, the US Supreme Court ruled that the protections of abortion in state law are no longer valid. Now states can decide for themselves whether abortion is still allowed within their own borders.
President Joe Biden said he was pleased with the outcome in Kansas. “People took to the polls in record numbers to speak out against an abortion ban. This result shows what we already knew. The majority of Americans are in favor of women having access to abortion and the right to make decisions about their health.”
The states of Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee and West Virginia have passed constitutional amendments over the past decade that have removed the right to abortion from the state’s constitution. Similar proposals will be voted on in November in the states of Kentucky and Montana. In that month, voters in California vote on amendments that properly enshrine the right to abortion in the state’s constitution.