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“At UnityPoint Health, our focus is on providing high-quality compassionate care to our patients and our communities. Our clinical and legal teams are working closely together to understand the practice implications this decision has on the care we provide in Iowa and develop appropriate clinical guidance for our providers, to ensure our patients get the best care and medical advice we can offer.” Critics of law concerned for maternal health, strain on physicians “Now — with abortion being banned — if physicians have a patient with PPROM, physicians have to...

Reproductive rights defenders on Friday cheered a pair of Kansas decisions reaffirming the right to abortion and striking down various restrictions—rulings expected to impact people beyond the Midwestern state, given how many patients must now travel for care. "The state devoted much of its brief to inviting us to reverse our earlier ruling in this case that the Kansas Constitution protects a right to abortion.

TOPEKA, Kan. -- Kansas' highest court strongly reaffirmed Friday that the state constitution protects abortion access, striking down a ban on a common second-trimester procedure and laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care providers. The pair of 5-1 decisions suggests that other restrictions -- even ones decades on the books -- might not withstand legal challenges.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — The Kansas Supreme Court permanently struck down two abortion-related laws Friday in the latest blow to anti-abortion lawmakers in the state. “The court reaffirmed what we already knew to be true — this is a fundamental right,” Emily Wales, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains," said. “People can make decisions about their bodies, their futures, their health care without government interference.” The Kansas Legislature voted in 2011 to increase regulations on medical facilities that provide abortions and, four years later, made the most common...

Kansas’s Supreme Court has thrown out two restrictive abortion bans, reaffirming the right to an abortion in a 5-1 ruling. In a set of opinions penned by Democratic Governor-appointed justices Eric Rosen and Melissa Standridge, the court found that the Kansas constitution protected the right to an abortion, striking down the pair of laws. Senate Bill 95, passed by Kansas Republicans, banned an abortion procedure used in many second-trimester pregnancies called dilation and evacuation. “S.B. 95 does not further patient safety.

(Reuters) - Kansas' highest court on Friday permanently barred the state from enforcing a law banning the most common second-trimester abortion procedure, saying the ban violated the right to abortion under the state constitution that the court had recognized in 2019. The 5-1 ruling from the Kansas Supreme Court, with one of the seven justices not participating, leaves in place a lower court order blocking the law, which banned a procedure known as dilation and extraction with a narrow exception for medical emergencies. The law was challenged shortly after it...

On Friday, the Kansas Supreme Court struck down a Republican-backed abortion second-trimester ban and affirmed that the state's constitution protects abortion access, with one justice dissenting. In two separate decisions released on Friday, the court ruled, "The Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights protects a fundamental right to personal autonomy, which includes a pregnant person's right to terminate a pregnancy." The Court also ruled against several state licensing requirements for abortion providers.

The pair of 5-1 decisions suggests that other restrictions — even ones decades on the books — might not withstand legal challenges. The court’s dissenting justice, widely seen as its most conservative, warned that Kansas is headed toward “a legal regime of unrestricted access to abortion.” “This is an immense victory for the health, safety, and dignity of people in Kansas and the entire Midwestern region, where millions have been cut off from abortion access,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which represented the...

“This is an immense victory for the health, safety, and dignity of people in Kansas and the entire Midwestern region, where millions have been cut off from abortion access,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which represented the abortion providers challenging the two laws. The pair of 5-1 decisions suggests that other restrictions — even ones decades on the books — might not withstand legal challenges. The court's dissenting justice, widely seen as its most conservative, warned that Kansas is headed toward “a legal...