The “Value Them Both” constitutional amendment
The amendment would overturn the Kansas Supreme Court’s decision in Hodes & Nauser v. Schmidt that declared that the state constitution guarantees a “fundamental right to abortion.”
It would overturn Hodes by adding a section to the Kansas Bill of Rights defining the propriety of abortion regulation.
Proponents of the amendment wanted to ensure that if the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Kansas legislature would regain the right to regulate abortions.
The Dobbs decision makes the outcome of Tuesday's vote crucial to the question of whether Kansans will now be able to decide on the appropriate regulation of abortion through their elected officials or whether it will be a Midwest abortion haven.
The disparity in out-of-state money flooding the airwaves with the deceptive talking points of abortion apologists, and the reality of the actual issue on the ballot, render the outcome less prophetic then billed
For the period of January 1, 2022 through July 18, 2022, campaign finance reports summarize the source of donations to the two competing campaigns. The Value Them Both Campaign, led by Kansas Family Voice, supports passages of the amendment, while a group calling itself Kansas for Constitutional Freedom heads the anti-amendment campaign.
Democrats’ Spin
The passage of the amendment merely means that the authority to regulate abortions will be returned to the legislative branch, where it rightly belongs
Many of the political advertisements funded by out-of-state donors repeat the same false claims about the Value Them Both amendment as peddled in Holscher’s Friday op-ed
And it is not merely the Planned Parenthood types flooding Kansas with money in the hopes of defeating the amendment
Another 23 percent of the donations to the anti-amendment Kansans for Constitutional Freedom campaign came from liberal super-PACS
Radical activists and politicians in Washington, D.C., are trying to force their extreme pro-abortion agenda on the people of Kansas
https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/01/out-of-state-democrats-pay-millions-to-influence-kansas-election-because-abortion-is-on-the-ballot/
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