Is Kansas going to be the first state without abortion services?

[proud2BlibKansan]

Are abortion's days numbered in Kansas? The consensus among both abortion-rights supporters and opponents is "maybe." The state Legislature passed rigid new restrictions on abortion clinics in April, which included increased power for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to rewrite standards for clinics. The KDHE complied, releasing the new standards on June 17, and they won't be easy for abortion providers to meet.

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Kansas clinics will be told by July 1 if they will receive KDHE licenses. Peter Browlie, president of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, told the Associated Press that closure is a real possibility.

And, abortion doctors say, the new restrictions don't make abortions safer or more sanitary as anti-abortion groups have claimed.

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Jeff Pederson, administrator at Aid for Women clinic in KCK sized up abortion opponents' fast political operating, "They have a mandate from God, and they need to make political hay while they have control of the House and Senate and they have the governor's mansion."

more . . . http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2011/06/is_kansas_going_to_be_the_firs.php#Comments

[JDPriestly]

1. The big threat to abortion rights is the number of Catholics and

fundamentalists on the Supreme Court.

How did we every get to this point?

[tibbiit]

2. This kansas thing is so weird to me

In the early 1970's all girls in surrounding states knew you could go to kansas for a legal abortion. (before roe v wade). Girls from OK would go to witchata falls ka.
tib

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Do you mean Wichita Falls, TX?

I've never heard of Wichita Falls, KS. And abortion was never legal here before 1973 except to save the life of the mother.

Perhaps there was a doctor somewhere in Kansas who performed abortions. I know there were several here in my part of the state.