TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas Supreme Court justices repeatedly pointed to last year’s overwhelming vote to uphold state-level abortion rights Monday, indicating they’re highly unlikely to back off their 2019 decision establishing the right to the procedure in the state.
In oral arguments on two abortion cases, justices appeared skeptical of the Kansas attorney general’s office’s arguments that they should overturn their landmark decision and allow two laws restricting abortion to take effect years after their passage under former Gov. Sam Brownback.
The arguments were the first time the Kansas court has considered abortion access since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal protections for the procedure last summer and the Kansas voters opted to defeat an anti-abortion constitutional amendment by nearly 20 points.
