Planned Parenthood starts telemedicine abortions in KansasTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Planned Parenthood affiliate announced Tuesday that it has started teleconferences with off-site doctors for patients seeking medication abortions at one of its Kansas clinics, a small step toward potentially much broader access in a state that has become a destination for the procedure after an August vote affirming abortion rights.The move comes as Kansas abortion providers say they are seeing a flood of requests for appointments from women in states with more strenuous restrictions on abortion than Kansas — particularly Oklahoma and Texas.EXPLAINER: Online privacy in a post-Roe worldEXPLAINER: Undoing of Roe quickly shifts abortion in statesOhio attorney general revisits comments on girl's abortionAnti-abortion priest Pavone defrocked for blasphemous postsThe announcement also came less than a month after a state-court judge blocked enforcement of Kansas’ ban on telemedicine abortions.Kansans for Life, the state’s most politically influential anti-abortion group, responded to what it called Planned Parenthood’s “dark announcement” by promising to consider “every possible course of action,” including legislation.The statewide vote in August preserved a Kansas Supreme Court ruling in April 2019 that access to abortion is a “fundamental” right under the state constitution."