Kansas voters rejected a referendum that would have removed the right to abortion from the state’s constitution by an 18 point margin. In reaction, President Joe Biden stated that the vote was a mandate from the American people to codify Roe v. Wade and protect the right to abortion nationwide.
“This vote makes clear what we know: the majority of Americans agree that women should have access to abortion and should have the right to make their own health care decisions,” Biden said in a statement after the election results were announced.
“Congress should listen to the will of the American people and restore the protections of Roe as federal law,” Biden added.
Representative Peter Meijer (R-MI) lost his primary battle in Michigan’s 3rd District against John Gibbs, a political appointee who served in former President Donald Trump’s Housing and Urban Development agency and earned the endorsement of Trump.