Emily Wales
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first heard Jul 2026
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And so we then started doing everything we could for infrastructure in Kansas to build a system that could support out-of-state patients.
And all of the terrible predictions came true.
And fortunately, we planned for it.
But it's an awful thing to see that we now have more than twice as many abortion patients coming to Kansas as we did before.
Something like 7,500 or 8,000 abortions in 2021 is now nearly 20,000 abortions in the state of Kansas.
We've opened two new health centers.
We now have whole systems to support patients who show up with kids in the car who are crying because they have been driving overnight trying to balance taking off work, finding child care, having loved ones who say, I would absolutely come with you and support you, but I don't know if what I'm doing is legal.
If I get pulled over and you're in a state with an abortion ban, can I tell them where I'm going because the care is legal in Kansas or can I not?
That is what our health center teams have faced every single day.
And the idea of losing what is now an essential point of access for abortion care for the Midwest and the South is just not something we can risk.
Kansans have seen what a man-made crisis looks like.
They know what it is to have patients from Arkansas who are now appearing in the news with stories about being transferred by ambulance from northwest Arkansas to Kansas to get care to save their lives because doctors in Arkansas said their hands were tied.
Yeah, well, I'm glad you mentioned it's August, because to that point, we are seeing the exact same misleading tactics we saw in 22.
The legislature put this on the ballot at a time when they expect low turnout of their base in the hopes that most Kansans don't show up, don't know what's going on.
They also have retained the rules for themselves.
So I can make some predictions about what would happen.
If we were unsuccessful in August, which to Micah's point, we're not going to be.
It's the most important thing that's ever happened.
But if we were unsuccessful, the legislature gets to write the rules.
We don't know exactly what it's going to look like, but we know that the process will change and that there will be a concerted effort to put anti-abortion justices on the court.
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