In August, I headed to the Sunflower State to see abortion’s first electoral test since the fall of Roe vs. Wade. The enthusiasm around the vote was really striking–not just an extreme number of lawn signs but also a general eagerness to speak about the issue
For The Intelligence, I made a curtain-raiser on the day of the election. The piece begins at 10:12
As the surprising tallies came in, I wrote up the results with Steve Mazie, the Economist’s Supreme Court correspondent
“IN A STRIKING development in a deeply conservative part of America, voters in Kansas have rejected a ballot initiative that would have scrapped the right to abortion in their state constitution…” Keep reading here