This is what we’ve worked so hard for, to get the political issue of abortion into the states. But this is a fail. Kansas rejected this pro-life amendment. Big Abortion poured money in from out of state to defeat this amendment.
We’ve got to be able to do the same. States are where the political battle is now. We need to get engaged in saving lives. The ground has shifted. After a half century of hard work and struggle we’ve won the right to debate the issue in each state. We can’t afford to lose in the states.
We’ve done so much good work winning the hearts and minds of people on this issue, we must also not forget the political battle.
We must be praying on the sidewalks, we must be helping out our local crisis pregnancy centers, and fighting the political battle as well.
This is not a defeat. This is a setback.
The voters of Kansas have decided: Their state constitution does provide a right to abortion.
“It’s a great day for Kansans,” state Sen. Dinah Sykes, a Democrat, told The Daily Signal after voters rejected a pro-life ballot question in results late Tuesday night.
“I think we just need everyone who was engaged with this to stay engaged and we can show that we can do great things,” Sykes said as a pro-abortion crowd celebrated at a watch party in Overland Park, just over 60 miles east of the state capital of Topeka.
Kansans cast votes during Tuesday’s primary election on the pro-life Value Them Both amendment, which stated that the Kansas Constitution doesn’t include a right to abortion, nor is the state government required to fund abortion.
The Associated Press called the election with about 86% of the vote counted, as 62% said no to the pro-life amendment and 38% said yes. By 12:45 a.m. Wednesday, with about 90% of the vote counted, the results were 502,840 votes (or 59.2%) against the amendment and 346,279 votes (or 40.8%) for it.
Abortion currently is legal in Kansas up to 22 weeks of pregnancy. The failure of the pro-life amendment does not immediately change state abortion law.
August 3, 2022 at 7:41 am
A sizable percentage of people are despicable, it’s not just an evil elite. There would be similar results on all sorts of issues. Sorry fellas.
August 3, 2022 at 9:25 am
As it stood at RvW every state had to provide abortions. After RvW they don’t. Each state gets to vote on what kind of laws they want for or against abortion. We all knew that this was to happen. Yes, it’s sad some states like Kansas voted to keep abortion on the books but as did California and New York. No surprise there. Just thank God for small victories. I’ll take each one no matter how small. We still pulled the rug out from under the pro abortion crowd when they felt secure abortion rights were untouchable. Fat chance. Remember we have a long road ahead of the final glory and the darkest hour will ALWAYS come before the dawn. It will become darker yet.
August 3, 2022 at 11:20 am
Sadly, Kansans voted to keep abortion legal through a Kansas Supreme Court decision. The defeated amendment wouldn’t have banned a thing, it (like Dobbs) would have just put it back in the hands of the legislature instead of judicial declaration of a right found in a penumbra (or whatever they claim).
But I’m sure the pro-abortion side lied their tails off, highlighting hard cases (incest/rape), claiming that the amendment would ban abortions, etc.
August 3, 2022 at 8:09 am
The push for no was huge, and there were so many lies about what this amendment would do, if passed. It’s terribly sad. I think some people of goodwill became confused by all the information. Pray for Kansas!
August 3, 2022 at 12:49 pm
elections are fake. anybody still thinking they are real is stuck in 2019.
August 4, 2022 at 1:26 pm
Two issues regarding this particular vote in Kansas:
1. The proposition was purposely worded in a confusing fashion.
2) There have been allegations that over 100,000 votes were cast JUST for the proposition, and not for any other candidates (possibly enough so that if those votes were bogus and not counted would then leave the proposition with a slim victory instead of a huge defeat).
August 4, 2022 at 3:50 pm
I can see where you are coming from, but there is another truth that needs to be confronted.
I live in Kansas and have seen that abortion has become ingrained in this State for decades.
Even professed, Mass-attending Catholics have no problem with legal abortion.
This “red State” revelation may come as shocking, but it is true.
The “no’s” did not need to cheat.
Unless there is a repentant change of heart in this State, the massacre will continue.