‘The stakes could not be higher’: Kansas abortion vote set for Aug. 2

At a recent gathering of abortion rights canvassers in a strip-mall office in this Kansas City suburb, a hand-lettered sign on the wall summed up the confusion over the state’s looming ballot question in two lines — a “no” vote equals support of abortion rights, “yes” means against abortion rights.

Kansans are heading to the polls Aug. 2 to decide whether the state’s constitution protects the right to abortion — the first such constitutional amendment to be determined since the Supreme Court’s historic overturning of Roe v. Wade, ending federal protection, on June 24....