Kansas Votes Today To Protect Abortion Access
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🗓️ 2 August 2022
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Summary
Kansas votes today on whether the state’s constitution should still explicitly protect the right to an abortion. Ashley All, a spokesperson for Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, joins us to discuss how she’s been organizing ahead of the vote.
And in headlines: the U.S. killed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, Cleveland Browns quarterback DeShaun Watson was temporarily suspended, and Capitol rioter Guy Reffitt was sentenced to over seven years in prison.
Show Notes:
- Kansans for Constitutional Freedom – https://kansansforfreedom.com/
- Vote Save America: Fuck Bans Action Plan – https://votesaveamerica.com/roe/
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, August 2nd. I'm Priyanka Arabandi. |
| 0:08.0 | And I'm Erin Ryan and this is what a day where we are advising Shakira's hips to resist |
| 0:13.2 | the temptation to lie as she heads to tax court in Spain. |
| 0:16.7 | Yes, so we still don't know which part of you may have done the felony tax evasion Shakira |
| 0:21.3 | so it is best for your whole body to just be honest. |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah, so don't hold this liable of this backfires. We are not lawyers. |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, President Biden announced that the U.S. killed Al Qaeda leader Iman Al Zawari, |
| 0:36.2 | plus Nancy Pelosi might be pissing off China with a planned visit to Taiwan today. |
| 0:41.4 | But first, we've said it many times on the show, but ever since the Supreme Court overturned |
| 0:45.9 | row, the fight for abortion access will be waged state by state. |
| 0:50.3 | And today is a crucial day for Kansas. |
| 0:53.1 | We will not go back. |
| 0:56.3 | We will get this up here. |
| 0:59.8 | We will. |
| 1:02.3 | Those are activists in Wichita last month and they've been working hard for weeks |
| 1:06.6 | because today the state votes on whether to protect abortion access. |
| 1:10.9 | Priyanka, can you tell us more? |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 1:13.4 | So the story here starts about three years ago in 2019 |
| 1:17.3 | when Kansas's Supreme Court ruled that the state's Constitution |
| 1:20.8 | explicitly protects the right to an abortion. |
| 1:23.5 | The exact language the justice has used is that it, quote, |
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