Kansas voters protect abortion rights, reject measure that would have allowed statewide ban

[peppertree]

Source: ABC News

Kansas voters protect abortion rights, reject measure that would have allowed statewide ban.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/kansas-voters-protect-abortion-rights-reject-measure-allowed-87846190

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Opponents of the Kansas GOP-backed "Keep Them Both" state constitutional amendment - which could open the door to legislation limiting or banning abortions in the state - rally Friday at the Kansas Statehouse following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Early returns tonight show the amendment failing on a statewide referendum by a wider-than-expected 20-25% margin.

[hauckeye]

1. I just scared my dog cheering this call! Way to go Kansas!

[Judi Lynn]

2. Welcome, sanity! Thank you. 👋⭐️

[peppertree]

4. And you were there, right in the thick of it Judi!

You and your fellow Kansans did grrreat!

[Judi Lynn]

21. Hope it will encourage sentient beings surrounded by Trumpoids elsewhere, too, peppertree!

What a tremendous result. Whoooo!

[peppertree]

23. Hear, hear!

Pundits - and even some Republicans - are openly predicting just that this November.

The prospect of losing abortion rights - even in cases of rape, incest, or fatal health risks (!!!) - is shaping up to be much more of a catalyst than many had anticipated.

It goes without saying that this is just about the most medieval thing I've ever thought I'd hear in U.S politics.

It's the kind of monstrosity one was used to hearing in Latin America or Africa, now and again - but here!?

May we nip this benighted rut Republicans have plunged head-long into, in the bud - before more women are hurt (some already have, as you know).

Have a pleasant evening, Judi. Sleep well!

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. As it should be.

Republican old guys can't imagine what their laws will do to the people in our society. You caught the tire, enjoy the consequences.;.

[SpankMe]

5. Totally crazy. Has anyone checked the temperature in hell rece ntly?

Link to tweet

[DBoon]

17. Have you looked out your window yet?

[kimbutgar]

6. The majority of voters said, "oh hell no"..

[proud patriot]

7. This is a bell weather for what's to come in Nov.....

look at the turnout of unaffiliated voters ... Wowzers ..

Keep all the ya'll

[RussBLib]

8. YES!

Huge turnout. You might say the SCOTUS has pissed off too many people.

Yea, Kansas!

[iluvtennis]

9. Yaaaassss!

[SouthBayDem]

10. So what's the matter with Kansas NOW?

I did NOT see this happening. A state that's been solidly Republican since the Civil War defending abortion rights so much, the conservative side couldn't even reach FORTY percent! (The vote is 39% "yes on the abortion ban" as I type)

[SouthernDem4ever]

11. That's probably the percentage of republicans in KS

even if in power they are always the minority.

[proud patriot]

13. Ding ding Ding we have a winner

[SouthBayDem]

14. Then how has Kansas voted Republican so many times in national elections?

Only three times since the 1930s did Kansas vote for the Democrat in a presidential election: FDR in 1932 and '36, then LBJ in '64.

The last Democrat to win a US Senate election in Kansas was George McGill in 1932.

[SouthernDem4ever]

15. Good question

You need to ask them why they showed no common sense.

[SouthBayDem]

16. You implied that only about 40% of Kansas voters are registered Republicans

I doubt that the 40% party would have won so many statewide elections for 100+ years.

[muriel_volestrangler]

26. 40% is a fairly high number for registered to a party

Remember there are independents too. Here are actual 2018 figures - Kansas there shows 44% Rep, 25% Dem, 30% Ind.

https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/registering-by-party-where-the-democrats-and-republicans-are-ahead/

Nebraska is 48% Rep, Oklahoma 47%. More puzzling is Louisiana - 44% Dem, 30% Rep, 26% Ind - you'd think that would be a solid Democratic state, but Republicans still often win there.

[BumRushDaShow]

27. "A state that's been solidly Republican since the Civil War"

Yet KS has had 2 Democratic governors in the past almost 15 years (including the current one - Laura Kelly and a past one, Kathleen Sebelius).

Most of the population lives in the cities (for KS - KC, Topeka, Wichita, etc), and those cities are blue with Democratic mayors. But because of the ridiculousness of state legislative maps giving rural counties with more cattle than people, more representation, you get these types of loon-controlled state legislatures.

[Obvious85]

12. Preview of the mid-terms

The Supreme Court released a Blue Wave and unwittingly did us a huge favor. Their ruling will be over-turned/invalidated soon, just a hunch

[peppertree]

19. From your keyboard to God's ear!

Rarely would a self-inflicted shot to a proverbial foot be so richly deserved as that one.

[DivByZero]

34. Self-inflicted

They accidentally treaded upon themselves

[peppertree]

35. They sho' did

That snake eat ate its own tail on this one.

And on all their Russian collusion. I don't suppose our Intelligence community took too fondly to that (and God knows what else besides).

[DBoon]

18. The spirit of Mary Elizabeth Lease lives

"Raise less corn and more hell"

[blue-wave]

20. Well

There's hope for Kansas after all.

[electric_blue68]

22. W00000t!!!!! Fantastic news! 👍👍👍👍👍

[lamp_shade]

24. Kick

[prodigitalson]

25. In the word of the great Chris Farley

[oldsoftie]

28. If every State put it on the ballot we'd see most approve the right to choose.

And a good many people who publicly say they're against it would vote FOR it in private.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

29. That's what I'd like to see

If it is true that the majority of Americans support the right to choose, as this vote seems to show, then putting the issue to direct vote whether state constitutional amendments or binding resolutions I would like to see efforts to get this issue on the ballot in all fifty states. While I don't think we'd win them all, I believe there are states, like Kansas, where the electorate is more reasonable than their lobbied, pandering, gerrymandered officials.

Let the people choose.

[oldsoftie]

30. As we like to say, politicians will ALWAYS be able to get an abortion for their mistress

[Politicub]

31. This is an incredible victory for the people of Kansas and the cause.

It gives me hope for democratic success across the country come November!

[Racygrandma]

32. The Republicans and the Lifers are like a bad marriage

The Republicans need the Lifers because they see no other issue, just Pro Life. The Republicans love that. They pay no attention to what else is going on. Now when they prove to actually be a minority, The local Republicans here in KS have a pretty disappointed look on their face, but now they are stuck with each other.