Supreme Fight Over Abortion Pill Access Looms Over Kansas

The Sunflower State will soon have clearer instruction on the future of population birth control. 

Here's a peek at the legal hot mess and how much of it won't concern so many of our new Honduran friends:

In Kansas, legal battles over restrictions continue to unfold over how providers dispense abortion medications, what they must tell patients and a required 24-hour wait after in-person consultation. Questions about those restrictions hinge largely on the state constitution — and on the Kansas Supreme Court's 2019 decision declaring bodily autonomy a “fundamental” right included therein.

Judge K. Christopher Jayaram was expected on Tuesday afternoon to weigh the Kansas waiting period law and other requirements alread in place for more than a quarter century. The new law, which took effect July 1, requires providers to tell patients that a medication abortion can be stopped once it is started with a regimen that major medical groups call unproven and potentially dangerous. The state and the providers mutually agreed that the new law wouldn’t be enforced at least until the state court decides the matter.

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In Utah and Kansas, state courts flex power over new laws regulating abortion post-Roe

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