Parsing the Kansas Abortion Ballot

We never did figure out what it meant by affirming there is neither a Kansas constitutional right ‘to abortion or to require the government funding of abortion.’ As for the measure’s title, we’d have preferred ‘The Samuel Alito Trusts the People of Kansas Amendment.’

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Justice Samuel Alito in 2021. Erin Schaff/the New York Times via AP, pool

To those of our readers wondering how in Sam Hill the Wall Street Journal managed to get out before we did an editorial on the Kansas abortion referendum let us just say we’re happy to confess — we’re a slow reader. Particularly compared to the Journal’s editor, Paul Gigot, who once read the entire United States Code over breakfast. There is a reason he is known as the Usain Bolt of the law. 

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