Technically, but it was a Kansas Supreme Court ruling that held that their constitution protects the right to an abortion. The language doing that isn’t explicitly in their constitution, it was just the interpretation of the justices. So, in order to pass any abortion restrictions above what Kansas law already has, they needed an Amendment that would allow the state legislature to further restrict abortion. In other words, had this amendment passed (and it’s awesome that it didn’t), the legislature would then have been free to pass a law banning abortion. The amendment itself wouldn’t have banned abortion.
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