Kansas women mobilize for reproductive rights ahead of Election Day

TOPEKA — Kansas women and their allies rallied Saturday at the Statehouse in support of candidates who value women’s rights.

Speakers emphasized the historic struggles women have gone through for rights — specifically with bodily autonomy.

Former Kansas Rep. and Topeka Mayor Joan Wagnon, now 84, recalled her time in high school where women would wear coat hangers on their sweaters to symbolize the back-alley abortion procedures that were common before Roe v. Wade. When Roe was instated, she remembers celebrating while protesters called her a “baby killer.”

“Every year that I was in the House, and every year since then, there has been stronger and more restrictive pushes on Roe,” Wagnon said. “That culminated in Kansas with a conservative majority,” and the placement of an anti-abortion constitutional amendment on the August 2022 ballot.




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