Voter mark their ballots during the primary election and abortion referendum at a Wyandotte County polling station in Kansas City, Kansas on August 2.

POLITICS: Kansas’ abortion vote vindicates Dobbs, proves democracy alive and well

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Kansans just proved it: Democracy works. Just as the Supreme Court said it would when it overturned Roe v. Wade in June.

On Tuesday, voters in the heavily Republican state shot down a ballot measure to overturn the court ruling that found a right to abortion in Kansasโ€™ constitution. That vote sent an unmistakable message of public support for abortion rights in the first major test since the courtโ€™s Dobbs decision nixed Roe.

This was what the justices expected in tossing Roe: not banning abortion, but letting Americans decide for themselves what restrictions on it they want in their states.

Many pro-choice activists have pretended Dobbs bans abortion, yet the justices merely found that nothing in the US Constitution forces states to permit the procedure.

Indeed, it was Roe โ€” citing an elusive constitutional right to abortion (backed by a later ruling, Casey) โ€” that sought to impose unilateral rules on every state, the very opposite of democratic.

Yes, some states will now maintain tough restrictions on abortion; but others, like deep-blue New York, are extremely liberal on the issue. And now even Kansas (again, a right-leaning state) has re-affirmed a right to the procedure. Thatโ€™s democracy at work, and it completely vindicates Dobbs.

Voter mark their ballots during the primary election and abortion referendum at a Wyandotte County polling station in Kansas City, Kansas on August 2.
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So much for activistsโ€™ handwringing over the supposed loss of not just abortion rights but democracy itself. So much for the militant pro-choice crowdโ€™s ugly threats of violence: the California man who sought to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh (and two other conservative justices). Team Bidenโ€™s encouragement of illegal protests outside justicesโ€™ homes. The leftโ€™s vile and racist attacks on Justice Clarence Thomas.

These are the people who truly want to snuff out democracy and impose their views on all of us. Pro-lifers may be disappointed by the Kansas vote, but every American should be proud that it showed democracy alive and well in the United States.



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