abortion

The Kansas Legislature has approved a constitutional that voters will now decide on. It comes in response to a Kansas Supreme Court ruling and would declare the state constitution does not protect abortion rights.

In a phone interview with KCUR, Bishop James V. Johnston Jr. said he was not instructing Catholics on how to vote but rather was urging them to vote their conscience.

The coronavirus pandemic is increasing food insecurity among young people, and a new podcast now out on NPR explores a family operation generating millions of likes, follows and dollars in the name of gun rights.

Based in Overland Park, Kansas, the Planned Parenthood affiliate has offered severance packages to dozens of employees — some of whom tell KCUR of inner turmoil at the organization.

Missouri’s admitting-privilege requirement has survived several court challenges, most recently when a federal judge in Kansas City refused to block the law.

The effects of post-Civil War lynchings and racist massacres are still being felt today, a former Marine who was injured by police at a Kansas City protest tells his story, and a long-term study on unwanted pregnancy refutes claims that abortions hurt women.

Laura McQuade led Planned Parenthood Great Plains, which is based in Overland Park and oversees clinics in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, from July 2014 to August 2017.

Sedgwick County commissioners plan to ask the governor and health leaders to reconsider an exemption allowing abortion services to continue during the...

Kansas lawmakers are making contingency plans in case the spread of the coronavirus forces an early end to the 2020 legislative session. A shortened…

The state has one remaining clinic in St. Louis, but Planned Parenthood officials say just three abortions were performed there in February, down from 174 in the same month a year ago.

Kansas health officials say the state is ready to deal with the new coronavirus now that Kansans are starting to get sick.Lawmakers still aren’t ready to…

Democrats in the Missouri House are fighting to undo a state requirement for abortion providers to perform pelvic exams prior to abortions. Legislation...