Anxious about Kansas vote, Missouri residents campaign to defeat abortion amendment

The vote on the abortion amendment will determine if the procedure remains protected by the Kansas Constitution. Missouri residents in Kansas City fret that if the amendment passes, they will lose access to a state that has been an abortion refuge for many.
All eyes in the country will be on Kansas come Aug. 2, when the state becomes the first in the country to vote on the right to an abortion following the Supreme Court’s reversal last month of Roe v Wade — the landmark 1973 decision that found a constitutional right to abortion.

Many of those anxiously awaiting the results live just a stone’s throw away from the Kansas state line, in Missouri, where nearly all abortions were banned immediately after the Supreme Court overturned Roe. Missouri’s ban contains no exceptions for rape or incest.