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Just before the 2022 midterm elections, Kaiser Family Foundation released a survey of U.S. voters asking them which major issues would influence them the most as they made their ballot selections. Access to abortion proved to be a major motivating factor for women. And then came the results from Kansas.

The KFF poll results appear to be prescient in the aftermath of the thumping Kansas voters gave a proposed state constitutional amendment that would have given legislators there the right to ban access to abortion.

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Dan Cook

Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.