Kansas voters chose to protect abortion rights. That's a win for democracy.

Democracy shouldn't be a weapon to harm the rights of minorities. Kansas voters understood that. [View in browser]( [Image]( August 3, 2022 THE LATEST [Alternate text] //link.msnbc.com/click/28596158.81400/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubXNuYmMuY29tL29waW5pb24vbXNuYmMtb3Bpbmlvbi93aHkta2Fuc2FzLWFib3J0aW9uLXZvdGUtd2luLWRlbW9jcmFjeS1uMTI5NzY2NT9jaWQ9ZW1sX21kYV8yMDIyMDgwMyZ1c2VyX2VtYWlsPWQ3ZGM3NDUxNzI5N2IzOTcxYWExNGQ2ZjMzMTEzNWEwODc4ZjhmNjQwZmExYTEwMTlmMTU3YjY1YzFiNWRkMWQ/58292da26e4adc7b0b8b4914Baa74baec/email[Anti-abortion Republicans tried to dupe voters in Kansas. It failed.](//link.msnbc.com/click/28596158.81400/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubXNuYmMuY29tL29waW5pb24vbXNuYmMtb3Bpbmlvbi9yaWdodC13aW5nLXNoZXJpZmZzLWFyZS11bmRlcm1pbmluZy1lbGVjdGlvbi1zeXN0ZW0tdGhyb3VnaC1hYnN1cmQtYWN0aXZpc20tbjEyOTc0OTk_Y2lkPWVtbF9tZGFfMjAyMjA4MDMmdXNlcl9lbWFpbD1kN2RjNzQ1MTcyOTdiMzk3MWFhMTRkNmYzMzExMzVhMDg3OGY4ZjY0MGZhMWExMDE5ZjE1N2I2NWMxYjVkZDFk/58292da26e4adc7b0b8b4914Bebb96f48/email by Hayes Brown One of the biggest challenges of a democracy is balancing the power of the majority against the rights of the minority. That’s what was on the ballot Tuesday, [Hayes Brown writes](, as voters in Kansas were being asked to amend that state’s constitution in a way that would allow for abortion restrictions. "We've spent considerable time over the last few years discussing the threat to democracy that minority rule creates," Brown writes. "The push to end abortion in Kansas, though, was the flip side of that coin, in that Tuesday's referendum sought to use majority rule to create an oppressive law." 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