News Kansas upholds right to abortion, a blow to anti-abortion movement in first Roe referendum August 3, 2022 Katherine Swartz, USA TODAY Comments Off on Kansas upholds right to abortion, a blow to anti-abortion movement in first Roe referendum Kansans decisively upheld abortion rights set by the state supreme court in 2019, the first such vote since SCOTUS in June overturned Roe v. Wade.