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Comfortable voting by lying to them or sending them a misleading message and it means that you dont believe that on the merit you can persuade voters. again, you also saw in one of these groups who were trying to persuade voters to vote yes. they were claiming that it didnt actually take away womens rights to abortion and reproductive care which would have technically been true and thats basically what this amendment did and thats what voters in kansas understood and thats why they showed up in ...

Bill and abortion rights, and so i would say theyre having a really good summer. >> so i actually want to pick up on this momentum and the efforts by some that want to blunt momentum. pacs sent out misleading text messages ahead of the vote. a text meant that approving that measure could allow the republican-controlled legislature to outlaw abortion would safeguard choice if the amendment fails. constitutional protections would remain in place, buttressing the current law that allows abortion in...

Red and rural parts of kansas voted yes, and the blue parts voted no and the blue parts just overwhelmed it. there were a lot of people in really red, western, rural kansas who also oifred as a republican, and maybe voted for former president trump and voted for biden in 2024 if he runs and might not vote for a democratic candidate in the midterms and turned out to vote down this amendment and lets speak to the momentum on the sides of abortion rights, activists and believers. >> yeah. donna, pi...

In the arm from yesterdays vote in kansas? >> absolutely. every democrat and white house official and republicans, as well and ive spoken to today and late last night, theres no two ways about it. this verdict in kansas is good news for the democrats. there was a question about just as donna mentioned how galvanizing would the issue of abortion be? it doesnt always rate as a top issue on polls, just how much would that supreme court decision help galvanize voters in november. i think one questio...

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Gov. Tom Wolf is taking state lawmakers to court over a proposed constitutional amendment that would declare abortion isn't a right in Pennsylvania.

Filibuster. i am glad the president has said so for grow. all of this is about us saving ourselves. the essential questions, whether it is about guns, abortion, our democracy, it is about us. voting, electing people who will protect these important civil rights. >> and, in the less than a minute we have left, i have to ask you since you are from pennsylvania, we are talking to pennsylvania state representative malcolm kenyatta in the next hour. but your reaction to the dark of night passage of a...

World. >> this will serve for a model of similarly situated states that will be a beacon in the midst of a difficult time for reproductive rights supporters. >> that is exactly why opponents will fight the ballot initiative, in hopes of stopping it in michigan. >> well either have a ban on abortion that protects human life or well have this anything go goes abortion amendment. this is a test to see what they could doo in other states. >> organizers have a few more days to gather enough signature...

After the overturning of Roe v. Wade, young activists are fighting over the Kansas abortion amendment, the first vote over abortion in a post-Roe world.

Difficult time for reproductive rights supporters. >> thats exactly why opponents promise to fight. >> we will either have a ban on abortion that protects human life or well have this anything goes abortion amendment. this is a little bit of a test to see what they could do in other states. >> for all the talk about the fight for control of congress, the democrats trying to keep control of the house and senate, jake, it is these governors races, particularly in these key battlegrounds where the ...