Reproductive rights advocates are moving forward energized by the abortion rights movement’s heartening victory this week in Kansas.
Reproductive rights advocates are moving forward energized by the abortion rights movement’s heartening victory this week in Kansas, which signaled that – despite what right-wing forces have claimed – masses of Americans are solidly in favor of bodily autonomy.’s overturn, and the response from voters intent on protecting Kansas’s status as an abortion sanctuary in an otherwise highly restrictive Midwest was stunning.
Thanks to voters’ definitive rejection of the amendment, Kansas, which is heavily conservative and generally votes Republican, is expected to remain an abortion sanctuary in a region rife with abortion bans. The anti-abortion movement has long been active in Kansas. It’s the state where abortion doctor George Tiller was murdered by anti-abortion extremist Scott Roeder in 2009. And the anti-abortion movement went on the offensive in Kansas to make sure that this first post-vote would go its way. The campaign for the “Value Them Both” amendment raised $5.4 million — more than $3 million of which was contributed by the Catholic Church.
Do Right PAC also funded a video advertisement featuring Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker. In the ad, Butker says, “without this amendment, even barbaric late-term abortions will be allowed” — even though Kansas already has a 22-week limit for abortions.
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