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Does Kansas Prove the Roe Voter Is Here?
Pro-choice supporters cheer during the Kansas for Constitutional Freedom primary election watch party in Overland Park, Kansas.
One of the most pro-life states in the country just voted to uphold abortion rights. I took a road trip to find out why.
By Nancy Rommelmann
08.15.22 — U.S. Politics
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WICHITA — On August 2, Kansans shocked the country, and maybe themselves, by voting overwhelmingly to keep abortion legal in their state. 

Kansas—which Donald Trump carried by 15 points and hasn’t voted for a Democrat for president since Lyndon Johnson was on the ballot in 1964—rejected an amendment to remove abortion rights from their state constitution…

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Nancy Rommelmann
Journalist at Reason, NYT, WSJ, Free Press. Co-host with Sarah Hepola of Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em podcast (smokeempodcast.substack.com). Author of "To the Bridge, a True Story of Motherhood and Murder." Based in NYC. On Twitter @nancyromm
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