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This attack on Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri is part of a broad, consistent pattern by extremists to interfere with the personal decision-making abilities of women, block access to reproductive health care, and ignore or circumvent court decisions they don’t like.
By supporting SB 175, the Kansas Legislature has signaled that it not only tolerates but embraces and encourages discrimination against Kansans – based on race, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, or any other category one can imagine.
HB 2612 is discriminatory in its intent and its impact. The bill would deny public services to individuals residing in Kansas based simply on who they are and where they come from. Such discrimination is illegal, unconstitutional, contrary to the core values that we hold as Kansans and Americans.
Kansans trying to register to vote at their state Department of Motor Vehicles offices are illegally being forced to provide additional documentation of citizenship, according to a new lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union.
On Monday, Brian Newby, the executive director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) suddenly, unilaterally, and illegally decided to issue letters adding “proof of citizenship” requirements to federal voter registration forms used in Kansas, Alabama, and Georgia.
It should have become obvious to legislators during last year’s session that tossing teachers into jail just for teaching classic literature or health is a bad idea, hurts Kansas students, and raises serious constitutional issues to boot.