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Claims made by campaigns for and against a constitutional amendment undoing Kansans’ right to an abortion look like descriptions of two different realities.

Sharon Brett, Legal Director of the Kansas American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), discusses their work with Radio Active Magazine regular Craig Lubow.

Voters in Atchison, Kansas, will once again be able to register to vote in next month’s primary election. “The fact that folks were going to be denied the ability to vote in that is a really serious problem," said Micah Kubic, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas.

“We shouldn’t be amending the constitution to restrict peoples’ rights,” ACLU of Kansas Executive Director Micah Kubic says. “It’s inconsistent with our values as Americans and deeply dangerous.”

As a civil rights attorney, I believe deeply in the right of people to practice their religion. But I believe just as deeply in the right of people to live free from any government entanglement with religion.

The ACLU of Kansas stepped in and threatened to file litigation because the county was violating federal law. This morning, the Secretary’s general counsel determined that those wanting to vote in the August 2 primary must be allowed to.

Atchison County, Kansas, has done the right thing — even though it took the threat of litigation from the ACLU of Kansas.

Atchison County will again allow residents of the City of Atchison to register to vote following a local outcry and a threatened lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union, according to an email from the Kansas secretary of state’s office.

The Roe v. Wade reversal by the U.S. Supreme Court empowered states to decide abortion rights. "We're looking at those states where we can create a firewall," Kary Moss, the ACLU's political director, told Axios.