Abortion is legal in Kansas until 22 weeks of pregnancy ... as a board operator and fill-in sports play-by-play announcer. In 2005, Nester joined the Kansas City Chiefs Radio Network as a Studio Coordinator at 101 The Fox, a role he held for 15 years ...

Wade. For observers looking to Kansas as a bellwether, the first state to put abortion to a vote since the Dobbs decision, the election may prove a compelling data point given the built-in ...

Planned Parenthood hopes a Jackson County judge will reconsider a December decision that kept some abortion restrictions in place.

A group of Kansas Republicans want to outright ban and criminalize abortions in the state despite state constitutional protections. Two bills in the Kansas House of Representatives — one prohibiting all abortions except those needed to save the life of a mother and another making it a crime to perform abortions — were

Idaho, Kansas and Missouri requested late last year to pursue the case in federal court in Amarillo, Texas, after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling finding that abortion opponents who ...

An incoming new president and state legislative sessions ramping up are likely to bring more changes to abortion policy across the U.S., which is still settling after the seismic shift in 2022 ...

Missouri’s abortion-rights amendment passed by a narrow margin — with close to 51% of the vote. Most support came from Kansas City, St. Louis, the college town of Columbia and surrounding areas.

Idaho, Kansas and Missouri requested late last year to pursue the case in federal court in Amarillo, Texas, after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling finding that abortion opponents who ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH)—Kansas lawmakers will once again debate a bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors. The bill is similar to one Kansas Governor Laura Kelly vetoed last year. Republicans came up one vote short of overriding that veto, and similar laws have been implemented across the U.S.

The Kansas bill prohibits health care providers from providing gender transition care to children who want to change from their biological sex. Providers could not give children puberty blockers, hormone therapy, or surgery. If they did, it would be considered unprofessional conduct, and they could be sued.

After years of attempts by Republican lawmakers, Kansas appears poised to join more than 20 other states in banning teens who have gender dysphoria from accessing gender-affirming health care.

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe advocates for state control of St. Louis police, citing crime concerns, in his first State of the State address. He also discusses abortion funding alternatives and tax reforms.