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Thu Nov 24, 2022, 02:37 PM Nov 2022

Kansas judge allows telemedicine for abortion pills

The Hill


A Kansas judge on Wednesday blocked a state law that banned doctors from prescribing abortion pills via telemedicine.

Shawnee County District Court Judge Teresa Watson granted a Wichita reproductive clinic’s request for a temporary injunction, after the Kansas Court of Appeals overturned her previous ruling.

Watson initially denied the clinic’s request for an injunction. However, the appeals court in June found that Watson “diverged from well-established Kansas caselaw” in her decision and sent the issue back to the lower court, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal.

“This decision will further open up abortion care in Kansas at a time it’s urgently needed,” Nancy Northup, the president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement. The center filed the lawsuit on behalf of the clinic, Trust Women, in 2019.
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My heart goes out to women in these gawd awful childfreebychoice Nov 2022 #1

childfreebychoice

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1. My heart goes out to women in these gawd awful
Fri Nov 25, 2022, 10:40 AM
Nov 2022


Misogynistic states. Even if they have money for abortion, have to find child care, travel, hotel money. Friends who have used pills says very painful, vs getting abortion, under twilight anesthesia. Add to that, what will happen, in these states to women who have incomplete abortions, and have to go to ER. One friend used pill and had to end up going to hosp, for d&c...thank goddess, it was in md

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