TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas lawmakers approved a policy early Friday morning requiring abortion providers and pharmacists to inform patients of an unproven treatment to “reverse” mifepristone, the first drug used in a medication abortion.
It was one of several measures on abortion the Republican-controlled Legislature sent to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s desk less than a year after Kansas voters overwhelmingly supported preserving the state constitutional protection for abortion.
The abortion pill reversal bill also included a policy to redefine abortion in statute to exclude contraceptives, ectopic pregnancy care and miscarriage care. The Legislature also allocated $2 million in funding for an alternatives to abortion program that would support anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers that often offer the treatment.
