Kansas Update: One Planned Parenthood clinic to stay open
It looks like the Kansas Health Department has changed its tune. Late Thursday, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced it will be giving a license to one Planned Parenthood clinic...
View ArticleGood news in Kansas! Judge blocks defunding of Planned Parenthood
Kansas has been facing heavy attacks from anti-choicers this summer, but on Monday a federal judge stood up against one of them: An incredulous federal judge on Monday rejected the state’s claim that a...
View ArticleTopeka, Kansas considers decriminalizing domestic violence to avoid...
Last night, in between approving city expenditures and other routine agenda items, the Topeka, Kansas City Council debated one rather controversial one: decriminalizing domestic violence. Here’s what...
View ArticleYep, Topeka, Kansas actually decriminalized domestic violence
As I wrote last week, Topeka, Kansas has been weighing the idea of decriminalizing domestic violence to avoid footing the bill for prosecuting the cases. And last night, despite the protests from...
View ArticleKansas House set to introduce “personhood” amendment
Adding it to the ton of other states where the fertilized-egg-as-person a.k.a. “personhood” amendments are in the works, but this one could actually result in something. Via AP: Twenty-five Kansas...
View ArticleUtah, Arizona and Kansas pass extreme anti-choice legislation (and the new...
It’s kind of laughable that as GOP denial continues with their whole “the ‘war on women’ is a myth” talking points on the airwaves and talk shows, GOP state legislation continues to dig themselves in a...
View ArticleBreaking ground in the war on uterus: Kansas also changes tax code to exclude...
Vanessa mentioned yesterday that Kansas passed a bill that forces doctors to lie to their patients if they think the treatment they might provide would hurt the health of a fetus. This same bill holds...
View ArticleUpdate on Wichita radio station’s refusal to air ads for abortion clinic
As we’ve reported in the last few weeks, Clear Channel in Wichita, Kansas, has been refusing to air ads for the local reproductive health clinic, South Wind Women’s Center. The ads, Clear Channel says,...
View ArticleBreaking: Kansas “Mega Bill” Would Deny Non-Profit Status to Abortion Providers
Today may be “National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers,” but down in Kansas, they’ve decided to do anything but. In fact, in a bill introduced yesterday in the Kansas state legislature,...
View ArticleKansas moves to be only state without one place to get an abortion
A Planned Parenthood in Kansas was denied state license to perform abortions based on new regulations that Senator Brownbeck has decided to implement. These new regulations, that include things like...
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