The most influential anti-abortion group in Kansas politics is urging voters, in mailers, to remove five of the seven justices on the State Supreme Court. Kansans for Life has criticized the court for a 2019 decision declaring that access to abortion is a fundamental right under the State Constitution and the group campaigned for a proposed amendment declaring that the State Constitution doesn’t grant a right to abortion.
Kansas voters decisively rejected that amendment in August and abortion rights supporters have been expecting an ouster campaign. Two of the targeted justices voted to affirm abortion rights in the 2019 decision and three are appointees of Democratic Governor Laura Kelly. Kansans for Life has recommended rejecting all the Kansas Justices up for retention, except Caleb Stegall, who was appointed by former Republican Governor Sam Brownback.
