Opinion: The Kansas abortion vote should never have happened
CNN
Jill Filipovic writes that the result of the election in Kansas Tuesday night in favor of abortion rights is a huge win and it reflects what most Americans believe: abortion is an issue best left to women and their doctors. "The Kansas vote is a tremendous relief, and it should curb an overly-aggressive anti-abortion movement. But the fact that a vote happened at all is a sign of our misogynist decline," she says.
The result in Kansas confirms that Americans simply do not want an extreme anti-abortion movement regulating women's bodies. Kansans have said what most Americans believe: abortion is an issue best left to women and their doctors.
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