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Pro-life student canvassers from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America visit voters in Olathe, Kansas, July 28, 2022. / Carl Bunderson/CNADenver, Colo., Aug 3, 2022 / 17:22 pm (CNA).The defeat of a proposed pro-life amendment in Kansas is in large part due to confusion and fear-mongering in the wake of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, one leading supporter on the ground has said.Chuck Weber, executive director of the Kansas Catholic Conference, said the Dobbs decision just six weeks before the amendment vote "really changed the trajectory of the abortion legal landscape.""...

(RNS) — ‘If this is what the bishops are going to do, if this was their plan for a ‘post-Roe’ world, then Catholics are going to be very disappointed,’ said one observer of the Catholic hierarchy.

Kansas voters upheld the right to an abortion, the first such vote after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Arizona and more also held votes.

The stunning defeat of the anti-abortion amendment in Kansas points to the unpopularity of the overturn of “Roe.”

Now that the Value Them Both constitutional amendment has been defeated, a big question looms: What's next? "This turns our attention to our pastoral efforts," said Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City. "While we can't protect women and children from abortion by the law, we can with love."