Kansas providers performed a historic number of abortions in 2023 – and most of them were performed on out-of-state residents – in a sign of just how much the 2022 overturning of Roe v Wade has rewritten the map of abortion access and led women to flee their home states for the procedure.
Out-of-state residents made up vast majority of Kansas abortions in 2023 Rise in abortions and patients from states such as Texas show how access has shifted since Roe’s overturning.
“On one hand, you have many states where abortion has gotten incredibly difficult to access – states with total bans, states with six-week bans.
More than 19,000 abortions took place in Kansas in 2023, a 58% increase from 2022, according to a recent report from the Kansas department of health and environment.
Most of those out-of-state residents were from Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri – three states that neighbor Kansas and have banned virtually all abortions.
