One group behind the fight to build a state-by-state legal framework in support of reproductive rights is the Fairness Project, which has been working with pro-choice activists and local organizations to get measures on the ballots this fall.
Ballot Measures Are the Next Frontier for Abortion Rights
Read moreICYMI: Fairness Project Sees Post-Kansas Path to Protect Abortion Rights with Ballot Measures
This week, Politico, Forbes, TIME, and Vanity Fair covered Fairness Project Executive Director Kelly Hall's comments about the path forward for protecting access to abortion care through ballot measures after Kansas voters resoundingly defended abortion rights on Tuesday.
POLITICO: Kansas landslide fuels abortion rights movement’s next fights
“Ballot initiatives are a phenomenally powerful tool when there’s a disconnect between the popularity of an issue and what’s being enacted by politicians. And every poll in the country shows that disconnect when it comes to abortion rights,” said Fairness Project Executive Director Kelly Hall.
TIME: The Kansas Results Preview a Roadmap to Protect Abortion Access Around the Country
If abortion rights can win on the ballot in Kansas, “it is advocacy inspiring,” Kelly Hall says. “I hope that it is also politically inspiring for folks to not run away from this issue, no matter what corner of the country they’re in.”
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Forbes: Kansas Vote To Keep Abortion Rights Bodes Well For More State Ballot Measures
“Now that abortion is no longer a federally guaranteed right, ballot measures will continue to be essential in the fight ahead,” said Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, which is supporting citizen-initiated ballot measures to defend reproductive rights across the country in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in June.
Vanity Fair: ‘The Plan Backfired’: Kansas Voters Fiercely Reject Antiabortion Ballot Initiative
“I think in this post-Dobbs moment, we are all coming to grips with just how wide the gulf is between what popular opinion is on where and how and when abortion should be legal," Kelly Hall, the executive director of the Fairness Project, a group that campaigns for progressive ballot initiatives, said in an interview.
Anti-Abortion Amendment Fails in Kansas, Demonstrating Power of Ballot Measure Strategy to Defend Reproductive Rights
Today, voters in Kansas protected their reproductive freedom by voting to keep the right to an abortion in their state constitution, defeating a legislatively referred measure.