If anti-abortion extremists are successful in passing the constitutional amendment in Kansas, millions of Americans will be left in an abortion desert.
According to a spokesperson at Kansas’ Trust Women health clinic, already’s reversal, half of all their patients came from Missouri. Currently, they are planning to open a new abortion clinic in Kansas City to help increase capacity.
If anti-abortion extremists are successful in passing the constitutional amendment in Kansas, millions of Americans will be left in an “abortion desert.”curtailing how Kansans can access reproductive healthcare. But, unlike in many of the surrounding states, abortion is not banned. If anti-abortion extremists are successful in passing the constitutional amendment in Kansas, millions of Americans will be left in an ‘abortion desert.’
I live in Massachusetts, but my daughter was born in Texas. I spent three years fighting Texas’ draconian abortion ban before moving. I’m lucky that MassachusettsAs people from a protected state, it is our obligation as pro-choice Americans to support the people fighting on the frontline however we can. The fight raging in Kansas will have repercussions for millions of people and we should put our money where our beliefs are.
—a bipartisan coalition of reproductive rights advocates and allied organizations committed to protecting the constitutional rights of Kansans to make personal healthcare decisions free from government interference.
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