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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.

Around 79,000 eligible Kansas voters are naturalized citizens. Their vote could help decide close races.

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.

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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.

Missouri voters will decide whether to enshrine abortion rights in November. If they do, accessing abortion could be easier in Kansas, health providers say.

The decisions cement the state’s role as a key abortion access point for patients across the broader region.

Abortion providers say the law, which requires them to report women's reasons for getting abortions to state officials, is invasive and unconstitutional. Anti-abortion groups say it will provide meaningful data to policymakers.