Kansas ballot will test post-Roe abortion landscape

Kansans will vote Tuesday on whether to remove abortion protections from the state constitution, making it the first such ballot test in the post-Roe v. Wade United States.

The ballot measure posed to voters asks whether the Republican state legislature should have the authority to regulate state abortion laws, paving the way for significant restrictions or an all-out ban. The June demise of a constitutional guarantee to an abortion in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has opened the door to a wave of anti-abortion legislation in red states, which now have the authority to regulate access to the procedure within their borders.