TOPEKA, Kan. (AP/WIBW) -- In a more than 5-hour call of the house, lawmakers rejected a measure to put a proposed anti-abortion amendment on the ballot.
The final vote was 80-43, failing to meet the two-thirds majority needed.
GOP leaders were looking to win over a few reluctant lawmakers, either moderate Republicans or Democrats in relatively conservative districts.
They kept House members locked in their seats without closing the roll for over 5 hours.
The amendment would have overturn a Kansas Supreme Court decision last year declaring access to abortion a “fundamental” right under the state’s Bill of Rights. The measure would have declared that the constitution doesn’t secure a right to abortion and allow lawmakers to enact restrictions as they have in the past.
The Senate approved the measure last week.
Supporters of the measure argue that they’re simply trying to return Kansas to the status quo before the state Supreme Court’s decision. They said the decision could spur challenges to a raft of regulations that lawmakers enacted over the past decade under Republican governors before Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, an abortion rights supporter, took office last year.
But abortion rights advocates have argued that the amendment is a step toward allowing GOP lawmakers to push for an outright ban if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its historic 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion across the nation.
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