Takeaways from Tuesday's primary contests: Abortion backlash in Kansas, Greitens' collapse

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Takeaways from election results Tuesday night: RED-STATE KANSAS REJECTS ANTI-ABORTION AMENDMENT Kansas may seem like an unlikely place for abortion rights supporters to notch a major victory.
50% : Kansas currently allows abortion until the 22nd week of pregnancy.
46% : The amendment would have allowed the Legislature to overturn a 2019 state Supreme Court decision declaring access to abortion a "fundamental" right under the state constitution.
38% : It was the first major test of voter sentiment since the Supreme Court ruling in June to rescind the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
37% : But on Tuesday, voters in the conservative state resoundingly rejected -- by roughly 20 percentage points -- a constitutional amendment that would have allowed the Legislature to ban abortion.
36% : After that, abortion is allowed only to save a patient's life or to prevent "a substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function."
30% : Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat who supports abortion rights, has warned that the Republican-led Legislature's efforts to ban abortion would hurt the state.

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