NEWS FLASH

Kansas Is Spending $2,180 Per Day Defending Its Anti-Abortion Laws | Kansas has spent $392,520 over the last six months defending challenges to legislation that “attempts to restrict abortion that were pushed during the legislative session earlier this year,” the Kansas City Star reported yesterday. “The state spent $237,834 on private lawyers defending efforts to strip Planned Parenthood of federal family planning funds. It has laid out $94,380 defending new rules for abortion clinics. And it has amassed $60,306 in legal bills over a new law that bars insurance companies from providing elective abortion coverage as part of their comprehensive plans.”