Emily Wales

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Strict Scrutiny · How Bad Is Trump's Attorney General Pick? · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

I feel like I'm ordering.

Friends of the court, we can agree on.

Are you and President Trump friends?

Can you commit to me today that this administration and DOJ will prioritize taking meaningful and thoughtful action to address the dangers that occurred in the current status quo to women all over this country?

So right after the Dobbs decision, we were preparing for a statewide vote on abortion access.

In 2019, the state's Supreme Court had recognized the right to bodily autonomy, including abortion, in the state constitution.

So Kansans still had access to abortion care as of the Dobbs decision.

But the legislature, I think not anticipating when Dobbs would come down, had put on a proposal that would have restricted and actually removed that protection from the state constitution for August 2nd, 2022.

So by the time the dobs came down on June 24th, we were in the heat of the campaign looking at the country's first statewide vote on abortion access.

Unsurprisingly, it turned out that Kansans didn't want to give up their own rights and they wanted to continue being able to lead healthy, safe lives and make medical decisions without political interference.

And by 59 percent of the vote, they decided not to take out their own rights from the Constitution.

As we like to say, if we had won by 10 points, that would have been a landslide.

It was much, much bigger than that in Kansas.

We knew when we were talking to supporters in the spring of 2022, we were telling folks, this Kansas vote's going to happen in this historic moment.

There's a chance that Roe will fall and we will be one of the first states to vote.

So we knew that political context was there.

But also on the care provision side, we operate health centers in Oklahoma and Arkansas, Missouri.

We knew that abortion bans were coming in those states.

And we had already seen in Oklahoma when Texas passed a six-week ban in 2021 that

We had Texans sleeping in our parking lot the next night trying to get care in Oklahoma.

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