{"id":273202,"date":"2022-08-01T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=273202"},"modified":"2022-07-31T20:04:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T01:04:14","slug":"kansas-archbishop-pro-abortion-bullying-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/kansas-archbishop-pro-abortion-bullying-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas archbishop: Counter pro-abortion ‘violence and bullying’ with the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Voters in Kansas are preparing to decide the fate of abortion in their state, with an August 2nd ballot proposal deciding whether abortion will still be included as a right in the state constitution. In response, Kansas City Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann spoke to EWTN’s Pro-Life Weekly about the “Value Them Both” amendment and urged Kansans to vote yes.<\/p>\n

Bob Beatty, a political science professor at Washburn University in Topeka, told NBC News<\/a> exactly what the amendment will do. \u201cThe amendment doesn\u2019t ban abortion, but rather, allows the Legislature to ban abortion if it wanted to,\u201d he explained; it will remove the right to abortion from the Kansas constitution and ask voters if they prefer legislators to choose the state’s laws regarding abortion.<\/p>\n

Kansas is the first state to put the abortion issue to voters since Roe v. Wade<\/em> fell, which Naumann said is a momentous event. \u201cI think for many of us, it\u2019s been like the Berlin Wall coming down,\u201d he said. \u201cBut of course, there are others that have become convinced … that we can\u2019t survive as a society without the ability to kill our own children.\u201d<\/p>\n