The bill would ban insurers from denying patients telemedicine coverage for the same services they would have sought in-person. The law would ban telemedicine providers from prescribing abortion-inducing medication, which has been met with opposition from abortion advocates.
“We urge that you not allow a bias against abortion care to be substituted for the good judgment of medical professionals and for the right of women to choose this care under the Constitution of the United States,” Bob Eye, an attorney representing Trust Women and Southwind Women’s Center, testified before the Kansas Legislature, according to The Topeka Capital-Journal.
The legislature has previously passed bills banning telemedicine abortion prescriptions, which pro-life advocates have pointed to in reaction to the new wave of opposition.
“Our concern is it’s bad medicine, and the legislature twice has affirmed that,” said pro-life lobbyist Jeanne Gawdun, according to The Topeka Capital-Journal. “It’s not something that we want to subject women and their unborn babies to here in the state of Kansas, and so we have to protect what the will of the legislature has been all these years.”
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