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Kansas state Sen. Mark Steffen, R-Hutchison, speaks in favor of overriding Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of a bill banning gender-affirming care for minors, Monday, April 29, 2024, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Steffen says the state must protect "confused" children from a "confused health care system and confused parents." (AP Photo/John Hanna)

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Kansas bill to limit gender-affirming care for transgender minors dies after failed veto override
By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press
Mon,04/29/24-12:47PM , 29 Reads
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This undated photo released by the Cassville Missouri Police Dept., shows a portrait of Dr. John Forsyth. The death of the Missouri doctor who was found 11 months ago in a northwest Arkansas lake has been ruled a suicide, Arkansas authorities said Thursday, April 25, 2024. (Cassville Missouri Police via AP)

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Arkansas officials say a Missouri doctor whose body was found in a lake died by suicide
By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press
Thu,04/25/24-2:54PM , 82 Reads
The death of a highly regarded Missouri emergency room doctor whose body was found 11 months ago in a northwest Arkansas lake has been ruled a suicide, Arkansas authorities said Thursday, in a case that fueled social media specula
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AP correspondent Jackie Quinn reports on another state deciding if abortion providers should be asking women why they want the abortion.

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Voters backed abortion rights. Yet Kansas could make doctors ask patients why they want abortions
By JOHN HANNA - AP Political Writer
Wed,03/06/24-11:10PM , 29 Reads
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas moved closer Thursday to requiring abortion providers to ask patients why they want to terminate their pregnancies and report the answers to the state. It would join other states with Republican legislatures that ban most abortions even though Kansas voters have affirmed abortion rights.
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Rick Elskamp sits with his oldest daughter, Sheridan, and discusses the frustrations of having his 23-year-old daughter on a waiting list for 10 years for services as an intellectually disabled adult, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, at the Elskamps' home outside Topeka, Kan. Thousands of Kansas residents with disabilities and hundreds of thousands across the U.S. are on waiting lists for services. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

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States offer services for disabled kids, then make their families wait 10 years for them
By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press
Wed,02/28/24-12:03AM , 41 Reads
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — When Lilly Miller was in elementary school, teachers told her parents they needed to immediately sign up their youngest daughter, who has Down syndrome, for a wait list so the state would pay for a day program when she grew up. The teachers predicted a six-year wait.
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