By SJ Otto
This was a big victory for the pro-choice movement in Kansas. Anti-abortion groups have worked hard to outlaw a woman’s right to an abortion. Wichita feminist have had a long struggle against right-wing anti-choice groups for the last 20 years. Ever since the Summer of Mercy the anti-choice groups have used every trick, every strategy they could use, to whittle away at a woman’s right to an abortion. If they had succeeded in passing this, they would have tried to outright ban abortion here in Kansas. There is a good possibility that they would have gotten the votes they needed to overturn abortion rights if both chambers of the Kansas legislature had passed that change. Now the anti-abortion groups are back where they started. Abortion rights are alive and well in Kansas.
From WIBW
By JOHN HANNA
The House gave first-round approval to a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution to overturn a Kansas Supreme Court decision last year declaring access to abortion a “fundamental” right under the state’s Bill of Rights.
The House vote Thursday was 80-41 and sets up another, final vote Friday to determine whether the amendment is put to a statewide vote in the August primary election, when a simple majority would change the constitution. The Senate approved the measure last week.
