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🗓️ 2 August 2022
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0:00.0 | One way Stephen McAllister knows there's a big vote coming up in Kansas about abortion |
0:12.4 | is because of his mailbox. |
0:14.6 | Every day it is stuffed with glossy flyers urging him to go to the polls. |
0:22.5 | And it's unlike anything I've ever seen in my time as a cancer, which is the vast majority |
0:28.0 | of my life. |
0:29.0 | You send a little exhausted by this junk mail. |
0:32.2 | It is, it is tiring. |
0:34.7 | It comes every day. |
0:37.9 | And there's also been even handwritten notes, some groups have gotten volunteers to write |
0:42.6 | on postcards. |
0:43.6 | Hold it, you've gotten postcards from people? |
0:46.4 | Yes, yes. |
0:51.7 | Most of the mail Stephen's getting is for the amendment for the record. |
0:55.7 | Now Kansas recognizes abortion as a state constitutional right. |
1:00.9 | If this new amendment passes, that right would disappear. |
1:04.6 | It would put the future of abortion access into the hands of a Republican state house super |
1:09.4 | majority. |
1:11.6 | The vote? |
1:12.6 | It's today. |
1:13.6 | And it would mean the legislature is free essentially to regulate abortion in any fashion |
1:22.8 | they would choose. |
1:30.0 | Stephen is uncomfortable with all this. |
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