Once a focal point of antiabortion activism and violence, Kansas overwhelmingly voted this month to protect abortion rights — for now. Here’s a look at how we got here, from 1974 to 2022.
Freshman Republican Sen. Bob Dole runs for reelection; polls indicate Dole is losing to his Democratic opponent, Rep. Bill Roy. At a September county fair debate, during which the only subject is supposed to be agriculture, Dole asks Roy, an OB/GYN, how many abortions he has performed. Only a year after, the confrontation is one of the first times the so-called abortion issue is invoked during a campaign. Weeks later, Dole wins reelection by the narrowest margin of his career.
The protests help trigger Kansas’s political shift to the right. “The protests are pretty much what got people … out of the pews, into the streets and then into the political arena,” saidReturn to menu Antiabortion activist Rachelle “Shelley” Shannon shoots Tiller in both arms as he leaves his clinic. He is back at work the next day. Shannon argues at trial there is nothing morally wrong with trying to kill him; she is convicted of attempted murder plus federal charges related to other clinic attacks and spends the next 25 years in prison.
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