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Bob_in_VA

(88 posts)
4. Dems should have said "yes"
Fri May 22, 2020, 10:53 PM
May 2020

So the Repigs want to force an anti-abortion amendment on the people of Kansas? Let them. Clearly they have no clue about the US Constitution. No state can amend its Constitution to make unconstitutional something that the Supreme Court has determined is Constitutional, so passing an amendment to the state constitution is, in this instance, a meaningless exercise.

So the Dems should have said "yes", let the Repigs pass both pieces of legislation and then sued in Federal court to have the amendment thrown out as a violation of Roe v Wade. Medicaid expansion is done and the legislature is in recess until early next year, allowing time for the Dems to tell the people of Kansas that their Repig "Right to Life" legislators were perfectly happy to let them die just so the Lege could get a meaningless amendment on the books and just in time for state legislative elections..

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