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Bert Nash panel series to highlight women’s mental health
An upcoming panel, including experts and people with lived experience, will highlight issues around women’s mental health.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Bert Nash panel series to highlight women’s mental health
An upcoming panel, including experts and people with lived experience, will highlight issues around women’s mental health.
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Lawrence women reflect on their reasons for ending their pregnancies
Two Lawrence women who faced unintended pregnancies in their 30s — one in a thriving, long-term marriage and the other in the midst of a toxic and abusive relationship — shared their personal accounts of ending their pregnancies by abortion.
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Speakers to discuss reproductive justice, or lack thereof, in Sunflower State
Two speakers will offer an opportunity Saturday for voters to learn about the “Value them Both” amendment on Kansans’ Aug. 2 ballots, in the context of the state’s history.
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Access to emergency treatment saved Lawrence mom’s life and enabled her to have three more children
In early 2009, Sarah Smith wanted to be pregnant — but she had two pregnancies that could have been fatal for her. Life-saving health care enabled her to have three more children.
Kansas governor warns passage of constitutional amendment will invite wave of abortion restrictions
Gov. Laura Kelly warned passage of an amendment removing the right to abortion from the Kansas Constitution would prompt an emboldened Republican-led Legislature to pass new restraints on the right of women to control their reproductive health.
Molly Adams/Lawrence Times
‘Incompatible with life’ diagnosis, Kansas abortion laws led Lawrence mom to seek health care outside state
In May 2017, Kayla Deere thought she had passed the halfway point of her pregnancy when abnormal sonogram findings alerted her doctor to complications.
If the baby survived birth, he might only live for seconds, minutes, hours, a day. And he would experience trauma.
Who’s getting abortions in Kansas? Plus more FAQs ahead of the Aug. 2 vote
On Tuesday, Aug. 2, voters statewide will decide on an issue that could permanently change Kansans’ health care rights.
Who’s getting abortions in Kansas? Here are some stats, plus answers to some FAQs about the amendment vote and what it means.
Kansas vote on abortion raises stakes for marginalized communities, advocates say
Pere DeRoy says for marginalized communities, the Kansas constitutional amendment on the right to abortion is not the beginning or the end of the issue of medical mistreatment.
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Abortion and access are interconnected with other issues, panelists say at Lawrence event
The future of abortion rights in Kansas will be determined by the Aug. 2 election, but due to the interconnected nature of social ideas, it won’t be the only right hanging in the balance, panelists said during a conversation Thursday.
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Reproductive Rights Panel set for Thursday at Lawrence Public Library
Speakers with a wide range of experiences and perspectives will participate in a reproductive rights panel Thursday in Lawrence.
Poll shows Kansans closely divided on constitutional amendment on abortion
The first public poll for the Kansas constitutional amendment on abortion shows a close race and exposes other ideological divides over reproductive rights.
Kansas and Missouri health care is saddling people of color with debt
People of color in Kansas and Missouri are often saddled with medical debt. That hurts their credit and their ability to get good loans, to buy homes and a range of other things that fuel middle class wealth.
Lawrence families create mutual aid network during baby formula shortage
As a group of Lawrence moms and more band together to overcome a nationwide baby formula shortage, they’re showing the power of mutual aid and setting a model for how people in other communities can help their neighbors survive tough times.
Anti-abortion groups make dubious claims as Kansas amendment vote nears
Claims made by campaigns for and against a constitutional amendment undoing Kansans’ right to an abortion look like descriptions of two different realities.
Early demand for under-5 COVID-19 vaccines promising amid rising case numbers, Kansas doctors say
As COVID-19 case numbers of approach levels not seen since February, Kansas doctors are encouraging parents to get their children vaccinated.
Lawrence health department offering long-term birth control options
Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health is offering long-term birth control, including an arm implant and two types of IUDs, with flexible payment options.
