Kansas becomes the first state to vote on abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned

Kansas residents are voting on whether to scrap abortion rights from their state constitution on Tuesday, the first such ballot measure since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.

Voting ‘yes’ would overturn the state constitution’s abortion protections, leaving the door wide open for its Republican legislature to ban or limit the procedure.

Choosing ‘no’ would keep the law unchanged. 

Any bill would likely face a veto from Democrat Governor Laura Kelly, which the red-dominated legislature has the votes to override. 

It’s currently legal to terminate a pregnancy up to 22 weeks in Kansas, around the roughly the viability window established by Roe in 1973.

There were 7,849 abortions in the state last year, according to a preliminary report from the Kansas Health Department.

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