Kansas Proved That Overturning Roe v. Wade Ushered In Minority Rule

The majority of Americans support abortion rights and yesterday’s Kansas election proved that.

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Poll after poll has shown that the majority of Americans, in 2022, support abortion rights for American women. According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, conducted in March, a 61% majority of U.S. adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 37% think abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.

This almost mirrors the results of Kansas’s election results yesterday that put abortion on the ballot during yesterday’s primaries. The state, which is extremely conservative, with Donald Trump winning the state by almost 15 percentage points in 2020’s presidential election, voted to uphold women’s right to an abortion in the state’s constitution. There was a heavy voter turnout, one that’s usually reserved for a presidential election, and 58.8% of voters rejected a proposed state constitutional amendment that would have removed abortion rights protections from the state’s constitution. The amendment would have allowed the state legislature to restrict, or ban, abortion in the state. After yesterday’s election, Kansas law still allows abortions up to twenty weeks post-fertilization or twenty-two weeks after the last menstrual period. That’s five months — which is the second trimester of…