Trust Women’s Assistant Director, Virginia Phillips, was recently quoted in an article entitled “How Kansas is closing in on becoming the first abortion-free state”.
The article highlights the exceedingly restrictive anti-abortion legislation that Kansas has passed in both their 2011 and 2012 sessions and the fact that a woman’s right to choose may soon be a thing of the past in the state.
Phillips commented specifically on H Sub SB 62, which the article says is the “biggest victory for anti-abortion advocates in the 2012 session.” This “conscience” bill would allow physicians and pharmacists to refuse to prescribe and dispense birth control bills and emergency contraception. Said Phillips, “The bill will likely have the most effect on low-income women in rural Kansas communities, who will now have to drive across the state and incur additional costs in order to receive basic information and simple care if their only local pharmacist has a moral objection to birth control.”
