Karen Drexler: Abortion is now banned in so many neighboring states. She says the state supreme court found that abortion was protected implicitly in the state's bill of rights. That then really limited lawmakers on what they could do to restrict abortion going forward, she says.Drexler: It seems bigger than just kansas, like it keeps access alive women in a whole region of the country.
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Kansas this week became the first U.S. state since the fall of Roe v. Wade to put the question of abortion directly to the electorate.
The result was resounding. Voters chose overwhelmingly to preserve abortion rights, an outcome that could have important political reverberations for the rest of the country.
Guest: Mitch Smith, a correspondent covering the Midwest and the Great Plains for The New York Times.
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