Tag: abortion
NEW YORK (AP) The number and rate of abortions across the United States have plunged to their lowest levels since the procedure became legal nationwide in 1973, according to new figures released Wednesday. The…
Thanks to affordable and easily accessible birth control, the rate of abortions in the United States is at its lowest point since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortions in 1973. The Affordable Care Act deserves…
The Trump administrations unfortunate decision to put the government between patients and their doctors threatens women across Kansas and Missouri. Unwanted pregnancies are virtually assured. Serious illness and yes, backroom abortions are possibilities.…
TOPEKA Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss announced Friday hell retire in mid-December after serving on the states highest court since 2002, when Republican Gov. Bill Graves tapped him for the role. That…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) An Oklahoma judge on Friday upheld a ban on a common second-trimester abortion procedure in what abortion rights proponents decried as a rogue decision that will threaten the reproductive rights of…
WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court steered clear of the nations fractious abortion debate, refusing to consider Alabamas effort to ban the most common method used for women in their second trimester of pregnancy. The…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday signed a bill that bans abortions on or beyond the eighth week of pregnancy without exceptions for cases of rape or incest, making it…
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled recently that the state constitution protects a womans right to an abortion. Conservative politicians in Topeka may back putting a constitutional amendment on the 2020 ballot to counter that ruling.…
Last week the Court ruled that the Bill of Rights in the Kansas Constitution protects Kansans right of personal autonomy, including a womans right to terminate a pregnancy. Then, on Monday, the Court hears the…
In a landmark case one judge called it the most significant and far-reaching decision this court has ever made a clear majority said Friday that the Kansas Constitution fundamentally protects the right to…
