Landslide! Kansas Voters Protect Abortion Rights in State Constitution, Reject GOP-Led Measure

Landslide! Kansas Voters Protect Abortion Rights in State Constitution, Reject GOP-Led Measure

Nearly 60% of Kansas voters struck down a ballot measure Tuesday night that would have removed the state's right to abortion and cleared the way for Republican state lawmakers to ban the procedure.

It was the first vote on abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.

Wade.

"Voters in Kansas have just proven that the will of the people can be a powerful tool to overrule the will of a Republican-dominated Legislature," says reproductive health reporter Amy Littlefield, who calls the vote a "landslide."