Biden to Sign Order on Abortion Access Following Kansas Win

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Kansas Voters Reject Measure to Ban Abortions
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President Joe Biden will sign a second executive order intended to improve access to abortion services, a day after Kansas voters rejected an amendment to the state Constitution that would have specified women have no right to the procedure.

Biden -- who will sign the order Wednesday, more than five weeks after the US Supreme Court eliminated the nationwide right to an abortion -- lauded the Kansas measure’s defeat.