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Kansas voters will decide whether abortion rights are in the state constitution Katie Bernard and Jonathan Shorman, The Kansas City Star
Jan. 28 TOPEKA Kansas voters will decide whether to protect abortion rights in the state constitution, after the Legislature on Thursday approved placing the question on the 2022 primary ballot.
The upcoming 18-month fight over an amendment, which says the constitution doesn t guarantee the right to an abortion, is all-but-certain to prove costly and inflame a state with a long history of division and even violence over the issue.
The Senate voted 28 to 11 to put the amendment on the August 2022 ballot, achieving the two-thirds majority needed to advance the proposal to voters. The House approved the amendment last week on the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide.
Sen. Caryn Tyson|Legislative Update
Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR) 1602 titled Value Them Both (VTB) was supposed to be debated on the Senate Floor but it didn’t happen. It needs 27 votes to pass but Senators were gone or refused to vote Yes or No. The House passed their resolution, House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 5003, with the same language on Friday. The Senate will debate it next week and if it passes there will be no need for the Senate resolution.
It is an important issue and should be debated. A few years ago, the legislature passed a bill banning dismemberment abortion in Kansas. A supermajority, 2/3 the legislature, supported the bill. The governor signed it into law. However, the Kansas Supreme Court nullified the law by issuing an extreme ruling that the Kansas Constitution allows dismemberment abortion. Where in the Kansas Constitution does it say that? The rogue Kansas Supreme Court is legislating from the bench again. The proposed constitutional amendment, SC
<p class="xmsonormal"><img width="350" height="219" src="/media/5857728/gavel with stethoscope 350x219.jpg" alt="gavel with stethoscope" class="ImageFloatLeft"/>Kansas pro-lifers are working hard to put some legal clout back into the state's laws protecting the preborn.</p>