Last night, the people of Kansas delivered a victory for reproductive rights.
In a statewide referendum, a coalition of Democrats, Independents, and even 20% of Republicans voted to reject a ballot measure that would remove the right to abortion from the State Constitution.
The people of Kansas spoke last night: the government does not have the right to mandate pregnancy.
But here is the thing. What happened in Kansas is just the beginning of what’s to come. The GOP unleashed a lion when they struck down Roe. It roared in Kansas last night, and Kentucky is next.
Until two days ago, abortion was legal in Kentucky until an Appeals Court sided with our extremist Attorney General and reinstated an effective ban. But like Kansas, Kentucky has its own amendment on the ballot in November, and the people of Kentucky are fired up to defeat it.
What happened in Kansas changes everything in this race. Pro-choice voters are more motivated than ever to show up to the polls in November, and we know that when more people vote, we win. We also know that a significant number of Republican voters are fed up with the GOP’s dangerous agenda to strip bodily autonomy from women.
Let me be clear about what this means. This is exactly the coalition of voters we need to show up in November in Kentucky to reject Amendment 2 and send me to the United States Senate to codify Roe. We will win.
Chip in to help me defeat Rand this November, and I will be the 51st vote to codify Roe v. Wade.
Let’s do this.
Charles Booker
