conservative magazine national review road just a few league weeks ago. quote, the historic supreme court decision overturning roe v. wade which democrats have hoped will stun voters into supporting them in one otherwise would be a big gop year, as not much discernible political effect. that aged well. and even democrats themselves have sometimes been afraid of their own shadow when it comes to abortion rights. white house communications director kate bedingfield took a lot of heat for the statement defending president biden s initial lackluster response to the decision overturning roe saying his goal quote and responding to dobbs s not to satisfy some activists who ve been consistently out of step with those in the party. the result in kansas shows that she was wrong as well. abortion activists who have been criticized for not responding more forcibly are clearly in line with public opinion even in that deep red state. the president s also been criticized by some for almost never utte
huge margin of victory? i was surprised by the margin but not by the success. kansas has made a habit in recent years of doing the right thing. the election of laura kelly in face of the extremist signal the kansas want to good leadership and in this case they wanted the right to freedom for women in that state. they refused to allow women to be relegated to second class citizenship and i m proud of kansas and i m proud of america to take the steps we need to protect abortion care and united states of america. so in your state of georgia, a federal appeals court allowed a six-week abortion ban to go into effect last month. what is the state of abortion access in georgia right now tonight? and what would you as governor due to secure abortion rights? brian kemp passed an extreme, callous abortion law in the state of georgia. it is a six-week abortion law that bans abortion before most women know their pregnant.
it is lethal to be pregnant in georgia fewer black women. and we know that brian kemp s does precious little to address that issue. finally, after years of begging the expanded access to medicaid but only for those who are already pregnant and for a year after pregnancy. what about for the women before pregnancy? i had a woman who faced a lethal choice. if she had been faced to carry a baby to term it could ve killed, or an owner brian counselor she would not have been protected. we deserve leadership and we deserve governors who actually understand biology and understand the danger that he is going for women. i urge people to go to my website stacey abrams.com. quick last question we re almost out of time one last question. people of luck to you and your party for strategic advice how to burst turnout. look at the turnout in kansas last night. do you think that s the ultimate proof that democrats should be running on this issue?
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and a big turnout efforts for the midterm elections, do that we turn to the one and only senior data reporter that we have, harry intimate. how big a surprise was this? it was huge, it was huge. i very rarely get shocked by results but if you look at the polling going back to 2012, we said okay what percentage of kansans believe that abortion should be mostly or always legal what did you see? you saw about 51% were mostly always legal, right? compare that to the vote that came in last night, that basically said we want the constitutional right to abortion inside kansas. it s north of 58% right now. there s a huge gap between the two of those. you know, we always say 2016 had a massive polling era and trump was able to win. the pulling error last night in the state of kansas was significantly wider than what we saw in 2016. when you glean from voter turnout there? democrats were very look, republicans and democrats relative to 2018 right, in the state of kansas, saw their turnou