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Pregnant Oklahomans have a new resource: the state's first psychiatrist dedicated to their mental health.
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There's no competitive bidding process through the state for pregnancy resource centers, faith-based groups and other nonprofits to get public money if they go through an organization like the Oklahoma Life Foundation.
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A group of Kansas women say the ‘pregnancy exclusion’ in the state’s Natural Death Act violates the Kansas Constitution.
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Kansas averages 25 dangerously hot days per year. That’s 10 more than it would in a world without climate change, according to the report.
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Kansas Republicans and anti-abortion groups are dismissing concerns that a child support bill is an effort to codify “fetal personhood” into Kansas law.
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Since the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 — also known as the Dobbs decision — and the 2021 Texas ban on abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, a growing number of domestic violence shelters are taking in more pregnant women or mothers with newborns.
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The panel wants to review those cases, which have been excluded from state data for years, and other reforms amid a report that shows a spike in maternal deaths.
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From June 2022 to June 2023, there were at least 210 pregnancy-related prosecutions in the U.S. Oklahoma trailed Alabama, at 68 prosecutions.