The anti abortion side just scored a huge wind, something they've fought for for decades. It's fundamentally shaken and reshaped the political landscape on these issues in ways that we really don't know yet how they'regoing to settle. People are more complicated than party labels on this issue. And you know, that's what kansas, the first vote nationally in this postfro world, i think that's what it really right, when people are faced with the possibility of a total ban on abortion.
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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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