“You know, I think if you want to have a voice in what happens in your life in your world, then it’s important that you take the time, make the effort to go to the polls and elect people you think will truly represent your values,” the governor said. Kelly said she was confident in the security and accuracy of voting in this and future Kansas elections, because state and local officials took their duties seriously. Campaign finance reports show more than $11 million has been spent to influence public opinion on the amendment. 2 on the amendment, which was drafted by opponents of abortion and approved by two-thirds majorities in the House and Senate. Wade decision that affirmed nationwide the right to abortion. She expected the statewide vote to be “very close.” It follows the June reversal by the U.S. Kelly said she was voting against the amendment because it was essential to reinforce the right of women to maintain bodily autonomy. “What would happen if that amendment would pass is that the Legislature would immediately come back with some very severe restrictions on a woman’s ability to control her own fate.” But that’s not true,” Kelly said during the Kansas Reflector podcast.
“The amendment is written in such a way that the proponents of the amendment want to suggest that this would just leave things as they are in Kansas. Laura Kelly warned passage of an amendment removing the right to abortion from the Kansas Constitution would prompt an emboldened Republican-led Legislature to pass new restraints on the right of women to control their reproductive health. Kansas voters at forefront of national debate following reversal of Roe v.