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If a majority of people vote yes on the ballot and the amendment passes, language would be added to the Kansas state constitution that would take away the right to abortion. Since Roe v.
A vote against the Value Them Both Amendment would make no changes to the constitution of the state of Kansas, and could restrict the people, through their elected state legislators, from regulating abortion by leaving in place the recently recognized right to abortion." On August 2, Kansas voters defeated the measure; abortion remains legal in ...
The 2022 Kansas abortion referendum was a rejected legislatively referred constitutional amendment to the Kansas Constitution that appeared on the ballot on August 2, 2022, alongside primary elections for statewide offices, with early voting from July 13.
The Senate was still just as opposed to a new free state, and no action was taken until January 1861, when senators from the seceding slave states abandoned their seats. On the same day the last of them left, Monday, January 21, 1861, the Senate passed the Kansas bill. [1] Kansas's admission as a free state became effective Tuesday, January 29 ...
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In 2019, the Kansas Supreme Court's majority ruled that the state constitution's bill of rights protects the right to an abortion. The 6-1 decision found that the protection of "inalienable ...
On Aug. 2, Kansans will decide the future of abortion rights in the state by voting on an amendment that would remove the right to abortion from the Kansas constitution.
Following the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act by the United States Congress in Washington, D.C. in 1854, and the subsequent organization of the new federal Territory of Kansas (1854-1861) out of the previous old Missouri Territory (1812-1821), the new 14th President Franklin Pierce (1804-1869, served 1853-1857), appointed Samuel Dexter ...