Fmr Senator: Most Americans Believe Republicans Are Overreaching on Abortion
This is the result of the astounding vote in Kansas
Republicans are overreaching on the issue of abortion, and that's the message Kansas voters sent Tuesday night when they chose resoundingly not to restrict abortion rights in the state, according to a former Democratic senator.
Voters in Kansas on Tuesday, in dramatic numbers and by an overwhelming margin, rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed lawmakers to ban abortion in the state.
It's the first such dramatic affirmation of abortion rights in a traditionally Republican state since the US Supreme Court in June overturned Roe v Wade and upended half a century of national abortion rights.
Since that Supreme Court decision, Republicans on the state level have been eagerly looking at ways to curtail women's rights, including refusing to include exceptions for rape or incest in their abortion restrictions, aiming at preventing women from traveling to another state where abortion is legal and laws like that in Texas where average people can act as bounty hunters against those seeking abortions — or even those helping them obtain one.
“But most Missourians, most Kansans, most Americans want rape victims to be able to terminate a pregnancy,” former senator Claire McCaskill, of Missouri, said on-air, on MSNBC Tuesday. “They don’t want dogs sniffing women at airports to see if they are traveling to have an abortion. They don’t want civil posses out looking to find people who have enabled someone to get a safe and legal abortion and take after them in court. This is the kind of stuff that Republicans are doing now.”
Public opinion surveys long have indicated that majorities of Americans support abortion rights and oppose the decision to do away with the 1973 landmark decision, Roe v Wade.
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