Kansas’ top court bolsters a state right to abortion and strikes down 2 anti-abortion laws
The Kansas rulings will be felt far outside the state since it has attracted thousands of patients from states where abortion is all but banned, most notably Oklahoma and Texas. The Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights, projected last month that about 20,000 abortions were performed in Kansas in 2023 or 152% more than in 2020.