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“The next three and a half years are going to continue to be very bumpy” for the reproductive rights movement, says Kathryn Boyd. “We just have to be ready.”

Expanded clinic capacity and an influx of people traveling from other states fueled the increase in abortions, according to researchers.

Anti-abortion advocates are celebrating legislative wins after an expanded Republican supermajority in the Kansas Legislature overturned vetoes by the Democratic governor.

Kansas Republicans and anti-abortion groups are dismissing concerns that a child support bill is an effort to codify “fetal personhood” into Kansas law.

The start of the 2025 Kansas legislative session brings renewed efforts to restrict access to abortion in a state that voted overwhelmingly to protect abortion rights.

An influx of patients from Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri drove a surge in demand for abortions at Kansas clinics.

As Missouri’s abortion ban lifts, Planned Parenthood’s new clinic in Pittsburg, Kansas fields patients from across the region.

More than 7 in 10 Kansans support expanding Medicaid, according to the survey from Fort Hays State University. More than 6 in 10 Kansans say women are better-positioned than politicians to make the decision about whether to get an abortion.

A plurality of Kansas voters say it’s a good thing that the state is a regional abortion access point, according to a survey by the Midwest Newsroom and Emerson College Polling Center.

A religious, Republican-leaning, semi-rural location like Pittsburg, Kansas would have been unlikely to host an abortion clinic before Roe v. Wade was overturned, but that is changing across the country. Some people who live in Pittsburg say they’ll protest at the clinic as much as possible. Others welcome its presence and what it offers.