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Judi Lynn

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Sun Dec 16, 2018, 01:56 AM Dec 2018

Fate of Kansas Ban on Telemedicine Abortions Uncertain

Source: Associated Press

December 15, 2018 11:39 PM
Associated Press

TOPEKA, KAN. —
Kansas clinics still don’t know whether it will be legal for them to offer telemedicine abortions in January. Meanwhile a state-court judge Friday derided the upcoming ban as an “air ball” that can’t stop doctors from providing pregnancy-ending pills to patients they don’t see in person.

An abortion rights group seeking an order to block the ban found its request enmeshed in larger legal battles over abortion. Attorneys for the state raised the question of whether other state laws might block telemedicine abortions, and District Judge Franklin Theis held off on issuing an order.

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