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Hunter Stuart

Abortion Provider Opens In Wichita 4 Years After Doctor Was Killed

HuffingtonPost.com | Hunter Stuart | Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics

A new women's health center in Wichita, Kan., opened last week in the midst of a massive legislative effort to restrict abortion access across the sta...

The Week In Wingnuts

The Daily Beast | Posted 04.07.2013 | Politics

North Carolina: The Promised Land? GOP state Reps. Carl Ford and Harry Warren jointly proposed a bill Monday that would allow the state to declare ...

Anti-Abortion Measure Sparks Concern

AP | JOHN HANNA | Posted 04.06.2013 | Politics

TOPEKA, Kan. — A phrase declaring that life begins "at fertilization" tucked into new abortion legislation in Kansas is creating concern among a...

State Senate Passes New Abortion Restrictions

Reuters | Posted 04.06.2013 | Politics

By Kevin Murphy KANSAS CITY, Kan., April 5 (Reuters) - The Kansas state Senate passed a measure on Friday that would ban Planned Pare...

Abortion Clinic Opens In Building Where George Tiller Practiced

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 04.04.2013 | Politics

WICHITA, Kan. — A new clinic offering abortions and other women's medical services saw its first patient Thursday in the Wichita building where ...

Dem Blasts 'Taliban-Like Philosophies' Of GOP Colleagues

The Huffington Post | Preston Maddock | Posted 04.02.2013 | Politics

The rhetoric surrounding a debate over abortion rights in Kansas heated up on Monday, when state Sen. David Haley (D-Kansas City) accused his GOP coll...

John Celock

Another State Considers Extreme Abortion Ban

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.26.2013 | Politics

A Kansas legislative committee heard testimony Tuesday on a bill that would ban abortion following the detection of a fetal heartbeat, a measure that ...

John Celock

Lawmakers Advance More Abortion Restrictions

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.19.2013 | Politics

The Republican-controlled Kansas House of Representatives voted to advance legislation adding new restrictions to abortions in the state Tuesday. T...

The Good Thing We Can Learn From Anti-Abortion States

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.13.2013 | Politics
Robert J. Elisberg

Using the logic and tactics of the anti-abortion activists, however, there is nothing to say that states -- or even local communities -- can't take that legal right and make it as unavailable as possible.

John Celock

GOP Lawmakers Advance Sweeping Anti-Abortion Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.07.2013 | Politics

A Kansas legislative committee advanced a sweeping anti-abortion bill Thursday after removing a provision that would have banned abortion clinic worke...

John Celock

'Ultraconservative Utopia' Prepares For Abortion Comeback

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 02.04.2013 | Politics

With the introduction of strict new anti-abortion bills nearing in Topeka, Kan., pro-abortion rights college students descended on the state capitol M...

On Anniversary Of High Court Ruling, Abortion Foes March On

AP | JOHN HANNA | Posted 03.24.2013 | Politics

TOPEKA, Kan. — Abortion opponents marked the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision Tuesday with workshops, prayers and calls for more lim...

Controversial Kansas Abortion Clinic Moving Forward

Reuters | Posted 03.24.2013 | Politics

By Kevin Murphy WICHITA, Kan, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Closed since 2009 after its doctor was murdered, one of the country's most embattled ...

Kansas: Storm Against the Future

Tom Hayden | Posted 02.11.2013 | Politics
Tom Hayden

The clinic where Dr. George Tiller performed abortions until being shot and killed during worship at his church on May 31, 2009, will be open for services in two or three months.

Candidates Asked To Ban 'Home Abortion Kits'

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 10.09.2012 | Politics

A national anti-abortion group is asking Kansas state legislative candidates if they favor a ban on "home abortion kits" and mandatory ultrasounds bef...

John Celock

Westboro Baptist Candidate Calls Sam Brownback 'Lacking On Moral Issues'

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 10.04.2012 | Politics

Jack Wu, the Westboro Baptist Church member running for the Kansas Board of Education, says that one of the nation's leading anti-abortion governors i...

Anti-Abortion Group Targets Republicans

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 09.19.2012 | Politics

The anti-abortion group Operation Rescue is targeting Kansas' Republican attorney general and a Republican district attorney with ethics charges after...

Where Are Moderate GOP Voices in Debate Over Abortion and Birth Control?

Laura Stepp | Posted 10.23.2012 | Politics
Laura Stepp

Remind me, what century are we living in? Because it looks to me as if the most vocal wing of the no-longer-party-of-Lincoln would like to boot women of child-bearing age out of jobs and back to home and hearth.

Abortion Fight Defines Contentious Race In Key State

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 08.04.2012 | Politics

WICHITA, Kan. -- There is no escaping abortion politics in Wichita, where the race between two Republicans for district attorney could come down to wh...

John Celock

Controversial GOP Leader Retires

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 06.01.2012 | Politics

The Republican speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives who denied claims earlier this year that he was praying for the death of President Barac...

John Celock

Lawmakers Pass Sweeping Anti-Abortion BIll

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 05.04.2012 | Politics

Following more than two hours of emotional debate, the Republican-controlled Kansas House of Representatives passed a sweeping 69-page anti-abortion b...

John Celock

Sweeping Anti-Abortion Bill Could Face Vote Friday

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 05.03.2012 | Politics

Kansas lawmakers are gearing up for a possible fight over an abortion bill Friday, two days after the state Senate passed a bill allowing health-care ...

John Celock

Pro-Choice Group Plans To Aid Moderate GOP

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 04.10.2012 | Politics

A pro-choice group that worked with an abortion doctor who was gunned down in 2009 will be assisting Republican Kansas state senators in their bid to ...

Kansas In Legal Battle Over Custody Of Patient Records

AP | JOHN HANNA | Posted 06.05.2012 | Politics

TOPEKA, Kan. — A federal agency has received a civil rights complaint about a former Kansas abortion provider's disposal of hundreds of patients...

John Celock

GOP Lawmakers Allow Doctors, Pharmacists To Refuse Treatment

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.31.2012 | Politics

The Republican-controlled Kansas House of Representatives this week passed legislation making it easier for doctors, nurses and pharmacists to deny ab...