Projections show Kansans voted more than 60 percent in favor of the state’s constitutional right for women to have access to the process. Pro-choice activists and advocates celebrated yesterday’s victory, which defeats the state legislature’s attempt to impose strict bans on the procedure after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade. “I’m just beside myself,” Anne Melia, who has campaigned to protect women’s abortion rights, told AFP. Scott Schwab, the Kansas secretary of state, said turnout in the referendum reached 50 percent. Marsha Barrett, a Kansas poll