Kansas clinics will be required to tell patients that medication abortions can be stopped using a drug regimen that the providers consider ineffective and potentially dangerous after a key legislative vote in the nation's ongoing partisan culture war.
over allegations about their care for newborns delivered during abortion procedures.
“I’m disappointed some legislators are eager to force through extremist legislation that will hurt our economy and tarnish our reputation as the Free State," Kelly said in a statement, alluding to how Kansas became a state with an anti-slavery constitution just before the American Civil War started. Jeanne Gawdun, lobbyist for Kansans for Life, the state's most politically influential anti-abortion group, praised lawmakers for demonstrating “the courage to stand against the Governor’s extremist views.”
“People don’t drive 19 hours from Texas if they don’t know what they want,” Sandoval said, noting that appointments in Kansas are in demand because of other states' abortion bans. “They really want to paint the picture that patients that come for abortions are uncertain when they are not.”
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