Mon Aug 8, 2022 – 1:43 pm EDT
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(LifeSiteNews) – After more than a month’s worth of celebrations since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the question of abortion back to individual states, the pro-life movement was dealt its first major blow in the nationwide effort to phase abortion out of American culture.
When voters in Kansas – a reliably red state – shot down a ballot measure that would have amended the state constitution to resolve that it does not, in fact, guarantee a “right” to abortion, a sobering reminder was issued to the recently ebullient members of the pro-life community that those on the left, who for the first time in more than half a century find themselves on the defensive, are not about to go down without a fight.
The defeated proposal came just over three years after the Kansas Supreme Court ruled in Hodes & Nauser v. Derek Schmidt (in a manner largely consistent with how the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe back in 1973) that, per the state constitution’s protection of “equal and inalienable natural rights,” a woman has the
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