TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Abortion-rights advocates say conservative legislation that cleared a Kansas House committee would stigmatize anyone associated with abortion providers.
Thursday’s bill would bar public schools from having any relationship with abortion providers or their informational materials and would block even indirect government subsidies for abortions.
Julie Burkhart leads the Wichita-based abortion-rights group Trust Women, and says the measure would violate the free-speech rights of anyone with ties to abortion providers.
But Grandview Republican Rep. Allan Rothlisberg says the state should discourage anyone in the state’s education system from associating with anyone involved with what he says is the killing of children.
