Kansas abortions rise 58% in 2023 amid tight restrictions in nearby states

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Kansas abortions rise 58% in 2023 amid tight restrictions in nearby states • Kansas Reflector

Abortions in Kansas surged 58% to more than 19,400 in 2023 — an increase of 7,000 from the previous year. Most were residents of other states.

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Kansas abortions rise 58% in 2023 amid tight restrictions in nearby states​

Nonresidents represent three-fourths of 19,467 abortions in Kansas​

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The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says the number of abortions performed in Kansas during 2023 climbed to 19,467, which was 58% greater than the 12,319 total in 2022. Three-fourths of last year's abortion patients lived in other states and traveled to Kansas for the procedure. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)

TOPEKA — Demand for abortion in Kansas skyrocketed by 58% during 2023 in response to near-total bans on the procedure in Missouri and Oklahoma and strict limits in other Midwest states.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says Kansas documented 7,849 abortions in 2021. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade and the 2019 Kansas Supreme Court’s opinion that women had a state constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy were factors in the rise in Kansas abortions to 12,319 in 2022.

Kansas’ total of abortions substantially escalated in 2023 to 19,467, KDHE said, for the 58% uptick compared to 2022.

In 2022, nonresidents received 8,475 abortions. The number of out-of-state patients reached 15,111 in 2023. In terms of Kansas residents, last year’s 4,356 abortions was an increase of 512 from 2022.

“Access to abortion shouldn’t depend on zip codes, but legal battles in states like Arizona mean that access to care is hanging in the balance,” said Trust Women, which operates a clinic in Wichita.

Passage of a Missouri constitutional amendment in November to reestablish reproductive freedom could have an influence on nonresident abortions in Kansas during 2025.

“The courts are thoughtfully reviewing years of complex anti-abortion laws and bans in Missouri,” said Planned Parenthood Great Plains. “While this process takes time, rest assured we are committed to continue fighting for Missourians’ access to their new constitutional right.”

In 2019, the Kansas Supreme Court held the state’s Bill of Rights contained the right to control one’s own body and exercise self-determination. The justices said this fundamental state right included decisions about pregnancy.

Soon after reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022, Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposed amendment to the Constitution that would have opened the door to more strict abortion laws.

Danielle Underwood, spokeswoman for Kansas For Life, said the state’s two-year increase in abortions didn’t represent interests of Kansans.

“Anyone who says this is what Kansans voted for is a liar and on the wrong side of history,” Underwood said. “The surge of abortions in Kansas is a heartbreaking reminder of the abortion industry’s relentless targeting of vulnerable women who are no longer protected by enforceable informed consent laws or basic abortion facility inspection and safety standards.”

In 2024, the state Supreme Court struck down anti-abortion statutes, including the ban on a second trimester procedure and laws regulating abortion providers more aggressively than other health professionals. Under current standards, an abortion in Kansas may be performed up to 22 weeks of pregnancy.

In 2024, Nebraska voters inserted a 12-week ban into its state constitution. Iowa enforces a six-week ban. Missouri and Oklahoma have been prohibiting abortion except to protect individuals from life-threatening situations.

Last year, KDHE reported, 69% of Kansas resident abortions occurred prior to nine weeks of gestational age. About 90% were prior to the 13th week, KDHE said. Eighty-five percent of women receiving Kansas abortions last year were unmarried.

KDHE said the abortion ratio of 128 per 1,000 live births for Kansas residents in 2023 was 14.5% higher than the ratio of 111.8 per 1,000 live births in 2022. The ratio had dropped from 151 abortions per 1,000 live births in 2004.

During 2023, Kansas recorded 34,041 live births among residents of the state. The rate per 1,000 people in Kansas was the lowest since state officials began tracking the figure in 1912.

The number of Kansas pregnancies for individuals under 20 years of age in 2023 was 2,041, down 2.6% from 2022. It represented the lowest pregnancy rate for this age group in 20 years.

 

[Json]

New meaning of run for the border

 

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[cyndaquil]

This is exactly how the ban on porn is going too.

Set up a VPN and pretend to be in another state.

The people who want them and have the means to get them will get them.

These laws only serve to punish the poor.

 

[jwinfield]

When these red states start pushing for laws to charge people for going out of state and tracking pregnant women.

 

[cyndaquil]

When these red states start pushing for laws to charge people for going out of state and tracking pregnant women.

Would that be the tipping point? There's a certain point where it turns into an even bigger privacy issue than it already is. Would that be when people are finally fed up?

 

[jwinfield]

Would that be the tipping point? There's a certain point where it turns into an even bigger privacy issue than it already is. Would that be when people are finally fed up?

Eh, people have already shown they don’t give a fukk.

White men will of course support it. White women will speak against it but fall in line when it matters. And Gen Z is weird as fukk so they’ll think it’s a good thing.

 

[Wild self]

Would that be the tipping point? There's a certain point where it turns into an even bigger privacy issue than it already is. Would that be when people are finally fed up?

Mass exodus of women, leaving those red states to be sausagefests

 

[qashif]

demonic

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Why do y'all keep posting these articles? If you look at the exit polls, White, Asian, and Hispanic women voted for Trump.

Literally nobody cares

 

[Braman]

I still don’t think the avg person—-men, actually—-understand how this can affect them. People see “abortion” and think ‘humph, this just effects those loose women having reckless babies, nothing to see here’

No. These laws also effect standard termination procedures in the event of miscarriage, which I’d hope dudes understand can happen to any woman, yours included

So you better be aware of your state’s status in the event you trying to have kids. God forbid you have to ever worry about it, but this is real. In the next few years they are going to classify ANY termination measure—-procedures that can be life saving for the mother, that have always been seen as STANDARD to end a miscarriage—as a technical abortion and doctors will refuse to do it

A third woman has died under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors reach for riskier miscarriage treatments

Porsha Ngumezi bled to death as she was miscarrying after her doctor opted against an emergency procedure used to end pregnancies.

www.texastribune.org

 

[Wild self]

I still don’t think the avg person—-men, actually—-understand how this can affect them. People see “abortion” and think ‘humph, this just effects those loose women having reckless babies, nothing to see here’

No. These laws also effect what was once standard termination procedures in the event of miscarriage, which I’d hope dudes understand can happen to any woman, yours included

So you better be aware of your state’s status in the event you trying to have kids. God forbid you have to ever worry about it, but this is real. In the next few years they are going to classify ANY life saving fetus termination measure—-even in miscarriage—as a technical abortion and doctors will refuse to do it

Yep

Mass exodus of those red states. Going to be like of them Andrew Tate meetings

 

[the cac mamba]

I still don’t think the avg person—-men, actually—-understand how this can affect them. People see “abortion” and think ‘humph, this just effects those loose women having reckless babies, nothing to see here’

No. These laws also effect what was once standard termination procedures in the event of miscarriage, which I’d hope dudes understand can happen to any woman, yours included

So you better be aware of your state’s status in the event you trying to have kids. God forbid you have to ever worry about it, but this is real. In the next few years they are going to classify ANY life saving fetus termination measure—-even in miscarriage—as a technical abortion and doctors will refuse to do it

honestly, man; women could have decided on this. they're 51% of voters, in every single state. so they clearly don't care about abortion as much as we thought

Yep

Mass exodus of those red states. Going to be like of them Andrew Tate meetings

to where, expensive blue states? over the possibility of the ability to abort babies? this isn't gonna happen

 

[cyndaquil]

Why do y'all keep posting these articles? If you look at the exit polls, White, Asian, and Hispanic women voted for Trump.

Literally nobody cares

If nobody cared then there wouldn't be anybody running to another state to get an abortion. It's not that nobody cares if nobody cared then Roe v. Wade wouldn't have been overturned in the first place. Go ask a fundamentalist if they care. Go ask a rape victim who was impregnated if they care. Go ask the husband who's wife carried an abnormal pregnancy to term and who's baby and wife died giving birth if they care..
People care. But many opponents to abortion bans cared more about the other things Trump promised instead.

 

[Wild self]

honestly, man; women could have decided on this. they're 51% of voters, in every single state. so they clearly don't care about abortion as much as we thought


to where, expensive blue states? over the possibility of the ability to abort babies? this isn't gonna happen

They have states like NC and VA where they still have abortion rights where cost of living is relatively cheap. Not every state is like Alabama or Mississippi.