Kansas Senator Doubles Down On His Equating Planned Parenthood To...
A Kansas senator who compared Planned Parenthood to Dachau doubled down on his statement and called Planned Parenthood worse than Nazi concentration camps. Sen. Steve Fitzgerald, a Republican from...
View ArticleKansas Supreme Court To Hear Arguments Over State Abortion Rights
The Kansas Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Thursday morning on whether the state constitution protects a woman’s right to an abortion. Last year the Kansas Court of Appeals said it does . The...
View ArticleKansas Supreme Court Hears Arguments In State Abortion Rights Case
The Kansas Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday in an appeal to remove a temporary injunction regarding a ban on a second-trimester abortion procedure.
View ArticleHouse Approves More Details, Typeface Requirements For Kansas Abortion Forms
Some Kansas lawmakers want more detailed information provided to women who seek an abortion. The Kansas House has advanced a bill that requires abortion providers to disclose additional details about a...
View ArticleKDHE Releases Preliminary Report On Abortions In Kansas
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has released a preliminary report on abortions in Kansas. According to Kansas state law, providers of abortion services must keep records and...
View ArticleStudy: Kansas And Texas Have Most Abortion Restrictions Not Based On Science
Along with Texas, Kansas leads the nation when it comes to imposing abortion restrictions not supported by scientific evidence, according to a report by a leading abortion rights organization. The...
View ArticleBill Adding Details, Typeface Requirements to Kansas Abortion Forms Moves...
Republican lawmakers in the Kansas Legislature have agreed on final language to update the information that doctors must provide to women seeking an abortion. The original proposal had specified that...
View ArticleBill Adding Details, Typeface Requirements To Kansas Abortion Forms Goes To...
The Kansas Senate has approved and sent to the governor a bill that requires clinics to expand the information provided to a woman seeking an abortion. The bill also specifies that the information must...
View ArticleBrownback Signs Bill Adding Abortion Information Requirements
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill Wednesday morning requiring abortion providers to give patients information listing their credentials, any disciplinary actions meted out against them and...
View ArticleLizz Winstead Talks Lady Parts Justice League Vagical Mystery Tour
Comedian Lizz Winstead co-founded Lady Parts Justice League in 2012; the organization is comprised of feminists who use comedy to raise awareness of reproductive rights issues. Winstead was inspired to...
View ArticleKMUW's Aileen LeBlanc, Carla Eckels Win National Murrow Award
KMUW news director Aileen LeBlanc and assistant news director Carla Eckels have been awarded a prestigious national Edward R. Murrow Award for their news feature looking at the return of anti-abortion...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood Foe To Head Kansas Health Agency; Lawmaker Named Top...
A lawyer who spearheaded Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s efforts to block Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood will take charge of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment next week.
View ArticleMore Health Care Workers Want In On Kansas Telemedicine
A proposed telemedicine bill has Kansas medical providers pushing for a new chance to make their services eligible for reimbursement.
View ArticleRuling From Kansas Court Could Spur Anti-Abortion Amendment Push
The Kansas Supreme Court could soon decide whether there’s a right to abortion in the state constitution.
View ArticleCourt Rejects Kansas’ Attempt To End Medicaid Funding For Planned Parenthood
Kansas improperly sought to end Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, rejecting the state's claims that the organization illegally trafficked in fetal parts...
View ArticleKansas Takes Its Effort To Cut Off Planned Parenthood To The U.S. Supreme Court
The state of Kansas wants the United States Supreme Court to review a decision preventing it from terminating its Medicaid contract with Planned Parenthood .
View ArticleTelemedicine OK Passes Kansas Legislature With Anti-Abortion Clause
Kansas lawmakers gave the go-ahead Monday to expand telemedicine services after reaching agreement on abortion language that had threatened to scuttle the move. The bill cleared the state Senate and...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood Says Abortion Rule Would Affect 10,000 Patients In Kansas...
Already facing highly restrictive abortion laws in Missouri and Kansas, Planned Parenthood Great Plains now confronts the prospect of losing its federal family planning funds if a proposed Trump...
View ArticleKansas Law Protecting Doctors From ‘Wrongful Birth’ Claims Is Constitutional:...
A Kansas law prohibiting lawsuits based on “wrongful birth” claims is constitutional, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled Friday. The measure, which Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law in 2013, protects...
View ArticleKansas' Abortion Past Could Foretell Its Future
The incident Julie Burkhart remembers most clearly about the 1991 Summer of Mercy is the man who attached himself to the front gate of a Wichita abortion clinic using a U-lock. Burkhart was a college...
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