Data Shows 851 Women from Arkansas Had Abortions in Kansas in 2024

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Above: Planned Parenthood’s abortion facility in Southeast Kansas is just 90 minutes from Northwest Arkansas.

New data shows 851 women from Arkansas had abortions in Kansas during 2024.

Since the reversal of Roe, Arkansas’ pro-life laws generally have protected women and unborn children from abortion except when the mother’s life is at risk. Last year Arkansas’ legislators voted overwhelmingly to clarify and strengthen its pro-life laws.

However, abortion facilities in other states encourage women to travel across state lines for abortion.

Last month the Kansas Department of Health released its annual abortion statistics. The report shows that abortions in the Sunflower State increased slightly from 19,467 in 2023 to 19,811 in 2024. More than 3/4 of those abortions were on women from out-of-state.

The data reveals abortionists in Kansas performed 851 abortions on women from Arkansas.

Some 3,141 women from Oklahoma and 3,760 from Missouri had abortions in Kansas in 2024. Kansas performed a staggering 6,736 abortions on women from Texas.

Women and families deserve better than abortion. It’s important to prohibit abortion through legislation, but we need to eliminate the demand for abortion as well. If pro-lifers can do that, perhaps people will no longer travel across state lines for abortion.

You can read the abortion reports from the State of Kansas here.

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New Study Confirms Abortion Brings Lasting Grief

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A recent study confirms what many women have experienced firsthand: That abortion often brings deep, lasting grief that can persist for decades.

The research published in the Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology surveyed nearly 2,000 American women ages 41 to 45. The findings paint a sobering picture of abortion’s emotional toll.

The study found that 70% of women who had abortions described their decision as “inconsistent with their values,” “unwanted,” or “coerced.” Only 30% said the abortion was truly wanted and consistent with their beliefs.

Women who felt pressured into abortion suffered the most. More than half of coerced women showed signs of prolonged grief disorder.

Even two decades later, 39% of women said they still experienced negative feelings from the abortion. Many reported intrusive thoughts, nightmares, and interference with daily life and relationships.

Abortion hurts women, and it takes the lives of unborn children.

Over the years, Arkansas passed a number of good laws requiring abortionists to tell women about abortion’s risks, consequences, and alternatives.

Today, abortion is generally prohibited in Arkansas except to save the life of the mother, and legislators have supported public funding for pregnancy resource centers that give women alternatives to abortion. This latest research helps further underscore that Arkansas is on the right track when it comes to protecting women and unborn children from abortion.

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Court Clears Way for Trump to Defund Planned Parenthood

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Above: Planned Parenthood’s closest abortion facility to Arkansas, located in Southeast Kansas.

On December 12, a federal appeals court handed the pro-life movement a major victory. The court ruled that the Trump administration can strip Planned Parenthood of its Medicaid funding.

The First Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s injunction that had blocked a key provision in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” preventing taxpayer dollars from going to abortionists through Medicaid. The provision effectively defunds Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business.

Planned Parenthood had argued the law violated their constitutional rights, but the court said Congress is free to decide how to spend taxpayer dollars.

Judge Gelpí explained that the law doesn’t punish Planned Parenthood for past actions. Instead, it simply gives them a choice: Stop doing abortions and keep getting taxpayer money, or keep aborting unborn children and lose the funding.

Planned Parenthood has claimed the funding cut could force them to close as many as 200 facilities.

In Arkansas, abortion is generally prohibited except to save the life of the mother, and the state cut ties with abortionists like Planned Parenthood many years ago.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states are not required to fund abortionists, and the Arkansas Legislature and the governor have both blocked Planned Parenthood and its affiliates from receiving public tax dollars.

Planned Parenthood Great Plains still operates facilities in Little Rock and Rogers, but neither one performs abortions.

However, reports also show Planned Parenthood may be spending millions of dollars to help women cross state lines for abortion, and news outlets have highlighted how pro-abortion states are protecting abortionists who ship abortion drugs across the country. Those are serious concerns.

But the court ruling is still good news for Arkansas. It shows that Congress has the power to direct taxpayer funding away from abortionists, and it helps underscore that Arkansas lawmakers were right to defund Planned Parenthood.

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