Kansans Support Right to Abortion in First Post-Roe Vote (3)

Kansas voters refused Tuesday to change the state Constitution to declare there’s no right to an abortion.

Voter turnout was high for the first referendum on abortion since the US Supreme Court said each state can set its own policy.

The vote will keep intact a 2019 Kansas Supreme Court decision that granted abortion rights under the state Constitution. Courts will retain the grounds to invalidate any abortion ban that the Republican-dominated Legislature might advance.

“This is a political earthquake,” national Democratic strategist Paul Begala said on Twitter.

“At a time when reproductive freedom is under unprecedented threat across ...