{"id":280658,"date":"2022-11-29T15:30:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=280658"},"modified":"2022-11-29T15:23:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:23:34","slug":"kansas-judge-overturns-law-telemedicine-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/kansas-judge-overturns-law-telemedicine-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas judge overturns state law that restricted telemedicine abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Kansas judge has ruled that lawmakers cannot ban telemedicine abortion, the first ruling since voters rejected<\/a> the Value Them Both<\/a> amendment, which would have removed abortion as a ‘right’ within the state constitution.<\/p>\n

The Kansas City Star reported<\/a> that Shawnee County District Court Judge Teresa Watson approved an injunction blocking enforcement of a law prohibiting telemedicine abortion the day before Thanksgiving. Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, celebrated the ruling in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis decision will further open up abortion care in Kansas at a time it\u2019s urgently needed,\u201d she said. \u201cIn this post-Roe world, telemedicine can make the difference in being able to receive abortion care or not. Today\u2019s decision paves the way for Kansas abortion clinics to expand services to women in remote, underserved areas of Kansas.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The law was originally passed in 2011, and was immediately challenged by the Center for Reproductive Rights, as well as the Wichita-based abortion facility Trust Women. Under the law, abortionists were required to be in the same room as abortion-seeking women when prescribing abortion pills.<\/p>\n