Kansas To Shut Down All Abortion Clinics Friday

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/06/kansas-shut-down-all-abortion-clinics-friday

Kansas To Shut Down All Abortion Clinics Friday
— By Kate Sheppard| Thu Jun. 30, 2011 1:43 PM

It's official. Every abortion provider in the state of Kansas has been denied a license to continue operating as of July 1. As we reported last week, strict new state laws put in place this month threatened to close the remaining three abortion clinics in Kansas. The staff of one of these facilities, a Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park, initially thought their operation could survive the strict new standards. But on Thursday afternoon, Planned Parenthood announced that the Overland Park clinic had been denied a license to continue operating—effectively cutting off access to legal abortion in the entire state.

The new law, which takes effect Friday, establishes new standards for abortion providers—standards apparently designed to make compliance difficult. The rules require changes to the size and number of rooms, compel clinics to have additional supplies on hand, and even mandate room temperatures for the facilities. Given that the rules were released less than two weeks before clinics were expected to be in compliance, many providers knew they wouldn't be able to obtain a license to continue operating. The laws, often called "targeted regulation of abortion providers," or TRAP laws, are an increasingly common legislative maneuver to limit access to abortion by redering it tough, if not impossible, for providers to comply.

With today's announcement that the Overland Park clinic was denied a license, Kansas becomes the first state to effectively make the legally protected right to obtain abortion services moot. One clinic in Kansas has already filed suit against the new rules, and a hearing on that suit is planned for Friday. Planned Parenthood is also expected to sue. The clinics are also expected to seek an injunction to block the law from being enforced in the meantime...

:grr:

...apparently designed to make compliance difficult.

I'd like to see a list...

Brownback, where's the list??!!!

I've said it before and I'll say it again: The best highway in Kansas is the one I see in my rearview mirror...

applicable to other medical facilities, there are clear grounds for a constitutional challenge.

And it violates the first principle of medical ethics: AUTONOMY.

Fuck Kansas.

but ERs should expect to see butchered girls and women showing up in the meantime.

Antiabortion laws of any description kill women.

If this is "all about life" as the anti-abortion idiots claim, why aren't they fighting for a right to health care? We never hear anything about them banding together to raise money for a heart operation for a baby born with a congenital defect.

to hurt women...whether they choose to terminate the pregnancy or not.
No birth control education.
Limited access to birth control or morning-after pill.
limited access to std medication and education.
limited access to screening tests to prevent disease transmission.
Yeah...Texas will be next.
We have lots of wire hangers here.

Fuckers.

that term is too good for them, my Buckeye friend :hi:

Some places are too regressive.

rest of the state? I just can't imagine being stuck in the middle of nowhere without any options.

That's how crazy the state is.

and they've always had theirs done in OP, not in KC. OP was cleaner, it was easier to get an appointment, and there wasn't as much of an overall hassle.

Comprehensive Health was a good place and they really seemed to care about their patients.

They have to go 100 miles east, to Columbia, MO.

A ban on wire coat hangers

A ban on purchases of Lysol by pregnant women

Law preventing pregnant women from jumping up and down

Checkpoints on all interstate highways and at all airports to prevent pregnant women from leaving the state

While it is bad to wish ill on anyone, ya kinda wish the wife of the Republican who wrote this law would come down with an ectopic pregnancy, for which there is only one treatment: an abortion!