Kansas Abortion Law Fight Exposes ‘Pro-Life’ Democrats As Cowards

Kansas “pro-life” Democrats appear willing to cave to political pressure rather than vote their supposed conscience. That is the takeaway from the continuing battle at the state house over the proposed “Value Them Both” constitutional amendment that would overturn the Kansas Supreme Court’s extreme abortion decision in Hodes & Nauser v. Schmidt.

The Hodes decision, handed down by the Kansas high court less than a year ago, declared that the state’s 150-year-old constitution includes a “fundamental right to abortion.” Even more devastating to pro-life Kansans, the state Supreme Court, in...