Voters Reject Republicans' Attempt to Ban Abortion in Kansas Through Back Door

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Republicans have long seethed about this court thwarting their political goals -- namely, forcing the legislature to adequately fund public schools in a series of rulings in the mid-2010s, and ruling that the state constitution protects the right to abortion in 2019.
46% : Kansas voters foiled state Republicans' latest scheme to snatch back their abortion rights Tuesday, as they voted down a constitutional amendment to change how state Supreme Court justices are chosen.
39% : Republicans have been fighting to ban abortion in the state ever since that 2019 court ruling preserving it (And they've been trying to bully the court into submission for even longer; after the school funding rulings, the legislature threatened to remove the Supreme Court's jurisdiction over lower courts and to cut off its funding).
39% : Then-Attorney General candidate Kris Kobach (R) said that getting rid of the merit-based system presented "another path" to "slowly and quietly" replacing the current justices with anti-abortion crusaders, per the Wichita Eagle.
38% : Republicans strategically put an amendment on the ballot to assert that the constitution does not protect abortion rights during what they thought would be a relatively sleepy 2022 midterm cycle.

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