Kristy Winter, 52, a Kansas City-area teacher and unaffiliated voter, voted against the measure and brought her 16-year-old daughter with her to her polling place. The measure’s failure also was significant because of how conservative Kansas is and how twice as many Republicans as Democrats have voted in its August primaries in the decade leading up to Tuesday night’s tilt. The referendum was closely watched as a barometer of liberal and moderate voters’ anger over the June ruling scrapping the nationwide right to abortion. A 2019 state Supreme Court decision declared that access to abortion is a “fundamental” right under the state’s Bill of Rights, preventing a ban and potentially thwarting legislative efforts to enact new restrictions.įOLLOW LIVE: 2022 Michigan Primary Election Results

Voters rejected a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution that would have added language stating that it does not grant the right to abortion. It was a major victory for abortion rights advocates following weeks in which many states in the South and Midwest largely banned abortion. voter sentiment about abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. The referendum in the conservative state was the first test of U.S. (AP) - Kansas voters on Tuesday protected the right to get an abortion in their state, rejecting a measure that would have allowed their Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten abortion restrictions or ban it outright. In other places even pointing with an open hand is not polite, and people point with their lips.TOPEKA, Kan. In some countries it is not polite to point a finger, so an open hand is used. In the USA a pointing finger is used to indicate different persons (me, you, her, them). (People with hearing loss already have a difficult time being accepted.) Here are some examples: Choose signs that will not offend the local people.

You will want to change them to fit the gestures, customs, and language of your area. Most are signs used in American Sign Language. On the next few pages we give ideas for making up signs, and examples for common words. If this is not possible, you can use the local signs and gestures, and invent more signs of your own. If possible, contact the Association of the Deaf in your country, and see if you can get a guidebook to sign language adapted to your local area or spoken language.

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