“I know there are medical emergencies, and when the mother’s life is in danger there is no reason for two people to die.”
“I’m not full scale that there should never be an abortion,” she said. Stephanie Kostreva, a 40-year-old school nurse from the Kansas City area and a Democrat, said she voted in favor of the measure because she is a Christian and believes life begins at conception. Before the vote, the measure’s supporters refused to say whether they would pursue a ban as they appealed to voters who supported both some restrictions and some access to abortion. Opponents of the measure predicted that the anti-abortion groups and lawmakers behind the measure would push quickly for an abortion ban if voters approved it. “I want her to have the same rights my mother has had most of her life.” “I want her to have the same right to do what she feels is necessary, mostly in the case of rape or incest,” she said. Kristy Winter, 52, a Kansas City-area teacher and unaffiliated voter, voted against the measure and brought her 16-year-old daughter with her to her polling place. The measure’s failure also was significant because of how conservative Kansas is and how twice as many Republicans as Democrats have voted in its August primaries in the decade leading up to Tuesday night’s tilt. The referendum was closely watched as a barometer of liberal and moderate voters’ anger over the June ruling scrapping the nationwide right to abortion. READ MORE: Kansas will be the first state to vote on abortion rights after Roe ruling. A 2019 state Supreme Court decision declared that access to abortion is a “fundamental” right under the state’s Bill of Rights, preventing a ban and potentially thwarting legislative efforts to enact new restrictions. Voters rejected a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution that would have added language stating that it does not grant the right to abortion. It was a major victory for abortion rights advocates following weeks in which many states in the South and Midwest largely banned abortion. voter sentiment about abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
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