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
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The country is kind of catching up to what we ve been living for quite a long time. and joining me now is nbc s star ship burns reporting live from overland park, kansas, a suburb of kansas city. can you explain with this measure will do if passed, and what s the latest polling tells us about where this measure stands? yeah, hey, jonathan, good morning. i m standing right now in front of one of those few abortion clinics here in kansas that zach mentioned. the stakes are incredibly high, after the supreme court decision, after dogs, after roe is overturned, the surrounding states around kansas went dark. there is no abortion access around this state. so, this is really sort of an island when it comes to abortion access in this entire region. zak there did mention to me that they have seen a significant increase in the number of calls they re getting outside of the state seeking
Line with the republican and if you look at virtually all of the, say, gubernatorial candidates on the republican side, almost all of them agree there should be no exceptions for rape, no exceptions for incest, and, you know, to better understand this, even right to life refused to endorse my opponent because they said his views on abortion were too extreme even for them. so, they re incredibly out of step with how michiganders see this matter. you know, to have said so openly that he believes that a fertilized egg is more important than the life of a woman s outrageous. it s a real insult to the 2.2 million women in michigan that have our reproductive age. dana nessel, thank you so
Services here in kansas. as he said there, there are very few clinics here to begin with. these abortion clinics can barely keep up with a number of people seeking the services here in kansas, let alone the folks that are now lacking access in their states and looking to come here. now, the value of the amendment, what it would do, it basically targets a supreme court decision, the state supreme court here in kansas in 2019 ruled that abortion rights are in the state constitution, there is constitutional protection for abortion here in kansas. this amendment would remove that constitutional protection for abortion, it doesn t ban abortion outright itself, it doesn t restrict abortion, what it does is remove those protections and essentially gives the power to the legislature, which is conservative here in kansas. it gives the legislature power to then potentially restrict abortion or ban abortion. we don t know that the