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Health August 5, 2022 - 3:22 pm

Legal scholar and KU professor hopes her students never lose the right to abortion that she had

by Maya Hodison

If she hadn’t received an abortion at age 19, Sarah Deer said she would not have become the person she is today. She has reached great heights of success as a legal scholar, advocate and more.

Health July 31, 2022 - 6:15 pm

Video: How they’re voting on Aug. 2

by Lawrence Times

Proponents call it the “Value them Both” amendment. These women would dispute that characterization. And much misinformation has swirled around the amendment ahead of Tuesday’s election.

Health July 30, 2022 - 6:30 pm

Lawrence mother reflects on joy in choice to end a pregnancy to center her daughter and herself

by Maya Hodison

Before she got an abortion last year, Bulaong Ramiz said she never saw herself as someone who would do so. But when the time came, she chose herself and her then-2-year-old daughter who needed her.

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Health July 27, 2022 - 6:30 pm

Topeka woman reflects on traumatic experiences and choosing her own path through her reproductive journey

by Maya Hodison

Though she chose to give birth after both of her pregnancies, Joe Cheray valued her ability to make those decisions in her reproductive health journey, especially since her bodily autonomy has been stolen by men starting at an early age and throughout her life.

Iris Cliff/Lawrence Times
Health July 26, 2022 - 6:30 pm

Lawrence women reflect on their reasons for ending their pregnancies

by Tricia Masenthin

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.

Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Health July 25, 2022 - 6:30 pm

Access to emergency treatment saved Lawrence mom’s life and enabled her to have three more children

by Andrea Albright

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.

Molly Adams/Lawrence Times
Health July 24, 2022 - 6:30 pm

‘Incompatible with life’ diagnosis, Kansas abortion laws led Lawrence mom to seek health care outside state

by Tricia Masenthin

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.

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    Lawrence to ban camping effective in mid-August as shelter options expand; coalition forming in opposition
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    Historic Resources Commission advances plans for row houses near former Borders building
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    Anti-porn center files four Kansas lawsuits alleging violation of state’s age-verification law
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    Loved ones remember Lawrence teen killed last year on what would’ve been his 18th birthday

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    Lawrence to ban camping effective in mid-August as shelter options expand; coalition forming in opposition
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    Historic Resources Commission advances plans for row houses near former Borders building
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    Anti-porn center files four Kansas lawsuits alleging violation of state’s age-verification law
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    Loved ones remember Lawrence teen killed last year on what would’ve been his 18th birthday
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    State court upholds Lawrence’s ordinance to protect against housing voucher discrimination

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