wade has reignited the fight for abortion rights. in states like michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin, access to basic essential reproductive health care might be determined by who is elected as governor or attorney general, and whether or not they will enforce abortion bans. and if republicans take control of congress, that leaves room for the possibility that they will begin working towards a national abortion ban. a goal that was planned even before roe is overturned. the assault on personal freedoms also extends to the lgbtq community. in recent, years republican leaders have been exploiting anti lgbtq sentiment for their political benefit. republican state legislatures are on track to introduce a record number of anti-lgbtq bills in 2022. so far this year, 13 states have already passed such laws. additionally, supreme justice clarence thomas is alarming opinion in the dobbs decision last month prompted congress to take up new legislation to protect same-sex marriage. int
legislature will do, but it gives the power to the elected officials to then take abortion into their hands. there hasn t been a ton of polling, there s really only one poll that shows about 47% of kansas, kansans, want to vote yes on this value amendment, it would remove those constitutional protections. 43% want to know, 10% are undecided. we are deciding that this will be pretty close jonathan. coming to us from kansas, thank you so much. turning now to michigan, let s bring in the states attorney general, dany attorney general nessel, thank you for being here. where do abortion rights in michigan stand today in a post roe america? well, jonathan, they are hanging by a thread right now. we have a couple lawsuits that were filed actually before the dobbs decision came down, in anticipation that road be