President Biden late Tuesday hailed Kansas voters for rejecting a ballot measure that would have allowed the legislature to restrict or ban abortion.
Voters rejected the measure by double-digits in the first instance of voters having a direct say on abortion in the wake of a Supreme Court’s ruling that overturned the right to the procedure in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
“Voters in Kansas turned out in record numbers to reject extreme efforts to amend the state constitution to take away a woman’s right to choose and open the door for a state-wide ban,” Mr.