Missouri Planned Parenthood Affiliates File Suit Against State of Missouri for Termination from Medicaid Program
Missouri’s two Planned Parenthood affiliates are filing complaints in the Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission against the State of Missouri after being notified of their termination from the Missouri Medicaid Program (MO HealthNet). Planned Parenthood will continue to accept patients at health centers across Missouri as it holds the state accountable for its latest attempt to strip patients of their access to birth control, cancer screenings, STI testing and treatment, annual exams, and other essential sexual and reproductive health services.
Planned Parenthood Great Plains Files Writ of Prohibition Requesting Dismissal of Baseless Case Brought by Missouri Attorney General
Today, Planned Parenthood Great Plains (PPGP) filed a writ of prohibition seeking to block Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s baseless case about a fictitious hypothetical patient. This suit is based on a surreptitiously recorded and deceptively edited video created by discredited, extreme anti-abortion actors, depicting an entirely hypothetical scenario involving a fictitious patient.
Planned Parenthood Great Plains Responds to Supreme Court Decision to Dismiss EMTALA Case; Leaving Emergency Abortion Care Under Threat
Today the U.S. Supreme Court failed to rule in a case where Idaho seeks to block life-saving care, including emergency abortion care under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). The ruling sends it back to the lower courts, leaving emergency abortion access under threat across the country.
Affordable Vasectomy Opportunity Returns to Rogers: Planned Parenthood Great Plains Two-Day Clinic Happening This Week
Planned Parenthood Great Plains (PPGP) is excited to announce a two-day vasectomy clinic coming June 20-21 at its Rogers Health Center. This clinic is one part of PPGP’s ongoing effort to expand access to essential reproductive health care and family planning services. This two-day clinic will offer simple, outpatient vasectomy procedures on a sliding scale basis and accept insurance, ensuring affordability for all patients.
Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains Continues Use of Safe Medication in Abortion Care Following Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling to Strike Down Challenge to Mifepristone
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone brought by a group of anti-abortion doctors lacked legal standing, allowing for continued access and use of the medication across the country. Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains will continue to offer medication abortion using mifepristone as part of a safe, effective two-drug regimen at its Kansas health centers.
Planned Parenthood Great Plains Hosts Two-Day Vasectomy Clinic in Kansas City, Kansas, with Low-Cost Care Available
Planned Parenthood Great Plains (PPGP) will host a two-day vasectomy clinic at its Kansas City, Kansas health center, on May 30 and 31, to expand access to essential reproductive health care services including a highly-effective, permanent form of contraception.
Expanding Access, Empowering Communities: Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains to Open New Health Center in Pittsburg, Kansas
Amid Kansans' overwhelming support for abortion rights in a region of the country where many states have severely restricted or completely banned essential care, Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains (CHPPGP) is proud to announce the upcoming opening of its new health center in Pittsburg. Southeast Kansas is one of the most underserved areas in the state and will directly benefit from the expansion of CHPPGP’s network of providers, bringing care closer to home.
Planned Parenthood Health Centers Open to All, Despite Governor Signing Bill Blocking Medicaid Patients’ Access to Essential Health Care
Just days after passage in the state legislature, Governor Mike Parson signed House Bill 2634 today, barring the state Medicaid program, known as MO HealthNet, from reimbursing Planned Parenthood for providing essential health care to Medicaid patients. This comes despite multiple rulings from Missouri’s highest court that withholding Medicaid reimbursement for care from Planned Parenthood violates the state’s constitution. This legislation also disqualifies Planned Parenthood as a provider in the state’s Medicaid program, dealing a blow to Missouri’s health care safety net, which is already stretched too thin.
Missouri Legislature Votes to Block Access to Essential Health Care, Denying Medicaid Patients Ability to Choose Planned Parenthood as a Trusted Provider
Today, the Missouri legislature passed a bill prohibiting the state Medicaid program (known as MO HealthNet) from reimbursing Planned Parenthood for providing health care to Medicaid patients. This comes just months after Missouri’s highest court again ruled that “defunding” Planned Parenthood by refusing to reimburse care through the Medicaid program violates the state’s constitution. The bill also excludes Planned Parenthood from participating as a qualified provider in the state’s Medicaid program, a move that will harm the state’s health care safety-net.
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Planned Parenthood detail volunteer opportunities for the region and how you can get involved
July 23, 2024 • The Pitch
Due to the major uptick in traffic coming to the Wichita and Overland Park locations, Planned Parenthood Great Plains is currently hosting volunteer training events. On July 18, 19, and 26, they will host virtual training sessions for those hoping to become patient allies, whose job is to support patients through the brigade of picket signs.
Posted by Planned Parenthood Great Plains
2 years after Missouri banned abortion, navigating access still involves fear, confusion
June 24, 2024 • Missouri Independent
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion two years ago. Since then, thousands of Missourians sought other ways to access the medical procedure.
Posted by Planned Parenthood Great Plains
U.S. Supreme Court mifepristone case could make abortions even harder to access in Kansas City
March 27, 2024 • KCUR
A case before the U.S. Supreme Court could drastically restrict access to medication abortions, now the most common form of abortion in the United States.
That could further limit abortion options for Missouians, who must cross the state line to get a legal abortion. It could also increase the number of patients coming to Kansas, trying to escape abortion bans that have swept through the region since the high court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
Posted by Planned Parenthood Great Plains
US Supreme Court to hear abortion medication case. How will that affect KS and MO?
March 25, 2024 • The Kansas City Star
In recent years, Kansas has become a major access point for abortion in the Great Plains.
Clinics in the state are seeing an increasing number of patients and the majority of them are getting abortions via medication. But that method could be at risk of tighter restrictions.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug – specifically whether doctors should be allowed to prescribe the drug without seeing the patient in person and whether it can be sent over the mail.
Posted by Planned Parenthood Great Plains
Planned Parenthood offering free and reduced cost vasectomies
Nov. 19, 2023 • Tulsa World
Planned Parenthood Great Plains is offering free and reduced cost vasectomies at its clinics in Tulsa and Oklahoma City.
Posted by Planned Parenthood Great Plains
Kansas can’t enforce new law on abortion pills or make patients wait 24 hours, judge rules
Oct. 30, 2023 • Associated Press
A Kansas judge on Monday put a new state law on medication abortions on hold and blocked older restrictions that for years have spelled out what providers must tell patients and forced patients to wait 24 hours to end their pregnancies.
Posted by Planned Parenthood Great Plains
‘Disproven and unsupportable’: Kansas judge blocks junk science abortion restrictions
Oct. 30, 2023 • Kansas Reflector
A Kansas judge on Monday blocked a combination of long-standing and newly implemented abortion restrictions in the state in what abortion providers described as a “hard-fought” win against “ethically unjustifiable” misinformation.
Posted by Planned Parenthood Great Plains
Free Vasectomy Appointments in Oklahoma Filled Up in Less Than 48 Hours
Sept. 28, 2023 • Jezebel
In a state that bans abortion, the CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains said they now have "a whole lot of people wanting to get in" for the snip.
Posted by Planned Parenthood Great Plains
Free vasectomy clinic fills up fast in Oklahoma City
Sept. 26, 2023 • KFOR
Planned Parenthood Great Plains is holding a free two-day vasectomy clinic next month, and all the spots filled up in less than 48 hours.
Posted by Planned Parenthood Great Plains
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