Kansas votes to preserve abortion rights in ‘wake up call’ for opponents

Voters in Kansas have rejected attempts to remove abortion protections from the state’s constitution in the first statewide vote on the issue since the US Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v Wade.

The vote has been hailed a “titanic result for Kansas politics” and has won support from US president Joe Biden. It will prevent Kansas’ Republican-led legislature from passing severe abortion restrictions in the state, which carries out abortions for a number of patients outside of the state."

This should be a real wake-up call for abortion opponents," said Neal Allen, a political science professor at Wichita State University.