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Feb. 1, 2021Topeka, Kan. | By: AP
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Republican legislators in Kansas have put a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the state constitution on the ballot for the state's August 2022 primary election.
The Senate approved the measure Thursday on a 28-11 vote that gave abortion opponents one more vote than the two-thirds majority they needed. The House approved the measure last week.
Approval by a simple majority of voters would change the Kansas Constitution. The measure would overturn a 2019 Kansas Supreme Court decision that found that access to abortion is a fundamental right.
The measure would not be an abortion ban but would allow lawmakers to enact one if the U.S. Supreme Court allowed it.
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