Posted on 11/05/2022 7:57:34 AM PDT by Morgana
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — When Planned Parenthood decided four years ago to open a new clinic in a medically underserved working-class neighborhood here, it envisioned a place that would save women living nearby from having to take hourslong bus rides to obtain birth control, testing or an abortion.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision overturning Roe v. Wade — four days before the clinic opened — changed all that. Because Kansas is one of the few states in the region where abortion remains legal, the clinic soon found itself inundated with calls not just from panicked patients in Kansas and nearby Missouri, but also in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas — even as far away as Louisiana.
This clinic and other Planned Parenthood centers in Kansas have been doing their best to help by lengthening hours, hiring staff and flying in physicians. Still, they have only been able to take about 10% to 15% of the patients seeking abortions.
“The ecosystem, it’s not even fragile. It’s broken,” said Emily Wales, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains. “I think there’s a perception that if you are seeking care, you can find it somewhere. And that’s not true.”
Haley Ruark, of Platte City, Missouri, was able to get an appointment on a recent Wednesday after a two-week wait — longer than she wanted but better than driving hundreds of miles west to Colorado.
Ruark had panicked after a series of birth control mishaps. First a condom broke and then, despite using the morning-after pill, a pregnancy test came back positive. Missouri bans abortion in all cases but medical emergencies.
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I guess we don’t have to ask what kind of relationship they have with Jesus.
I was hoping it was under the waves but it looks like they mean inundated w patients?
time to rename ABC to A B.S. network.
You know, when in the 90s abortion mills were closing in majority white or hispanic Texas cities the people at planned barrenhood seemed to be keeping them open in black areas ... maybe those areas aren’t underserved but overserved ... and that is the intention?
Kinda amazing that Miss Ruark would so shamelessly share with the world the details of her irresponsibility and sluttiness. Such are the times, I suppose...
Abortion is horrifying. How can people agree to late-term abortions, when the fetus can feel pain? We are living in a sick society.
Women are rushing out to get pregnant, while they can? It doesn’t make sense for there to be an “inundation”.
Yeah, there seems to be quite an abortion culture there. Kansas was the home of the notorious baby killer, George Tiller.
Wanna bet Ms Ruark is a public employee...
How curious. The issue of slavery came to a head in Kansas and Missouri, leading to its eventual abolition; may the same end happen to abortion in the same lands.
...it envisioned a place that it could kill as many black babies as the purpose of Planned Parenthood has always intended.
That is exactly the case.
Wrong.
First, she decided to spread her legs for a man with whom she did not want to raise children.
Per her LinkedIn page, her most recent job (2019) was indeed as a county employee.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/haley-ruark-757566131/
I wonder when/if the times come they will put up a gaudy neon sign that reads 1 Million Served.......
Remember when a certain Democrat president wanted abortions to be “safe but rare”? The political left is completely obsessed with abortions. It’s beyond sick.
I guess we don’t have to ask what kind of relationship they have with Jesus.
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“Jesus? Who dat?”
Yes, safe, legal and rare. Uh huh.
If only there were some way for women and men to avoid pregnancy so we wouldn’t have to butcher all these innocent babes.
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