Kansas voters reject constitutional amendment granting lawmakers ability to regulate abortion
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Residents in Kansas have voted down a constitutional amendment that would have given state lawmakers the ability to ban or impose restrictions on abortion.
Kyle Morris covers politics for Fox News. On Twitter: @RealKyleMorris.
The constitutional amendment, backed by a campaign named Value Them Both, would have given elected representatives the ability to pass legislation regulating abortion in Kansas, which was restricted after the state's Supreme Court previously found the 1859 Kansas Constitution grants a "natural right" to abortion. At the time the AP called the race, voters had rejected the amendment by more than 20 percentage points.
In 2019, the state's supreme court struck down a ban on surgical abortions in a 6-1 decision, ruling that the state's constitution protected women's choice to engage in that activity as a "right."