‘We could feel it’: Kansans celebrate upset abortion rights victory

City suburb of Overland Park, people screamed, whooped, cheered and cried as a vote to protect abortion rights in Kansas’s state constitution came down late on Tuesday night.James Quigley, 72, a retired doctor and a Republican from Johnson county sat on his own drinking a glass of white wine after hearing the news. “Abortion is a much more nuanced issue than anti-choice individuals would have you think,” he told the Guardian.

But on a night of huge turnout Kansas voted to protect abortion in the state’s constitution, with the no vote securing a whopping 59% to 41% of the anti-abortion movement.At the beginning of the night, the mood had been cautiously hopeful at the Kansas for Constitutional Freedom event in Overland Park, with the no vote ahead from the start. “We’re in the lead, and no is better than yes!” a young girl said to her mother, from Missouri. The two had been canvassing together for weeks.

“Imagine how good we are going to feel when we beat the anti-abortion movement and the Republicans, who lied at every turn,” state congresswoman Stephanie Clayton told the Guardian.“I feel really good right now,” said Leslie Butsch with tears in her eyes already at 8.30pm. She was watching as the vote in Johnson county first showed signs of leaning heavily towards no, after weeks of spending her evenings knocking on doors there.

She knew that the vote would be close in a state that gave Trump a 15% lead over Biden in the 2020 presidential election. “But we were close in a lot of rural areas and that really made the difference – I’m just so grateful,” she said. “This vote makes clear what we know: the majority of Americans agree that women should have access to abortion and should have the right to make their own healthcare decisions.”

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