A new abortion clinic is planning to open in southeast Kansas this fall.

Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains' Tuesday announcement says Pittsburg, Kansas, will be home to a new facility providing abortion procedures and pills, among other services. The number of out-of-state residents seeking abortions in Kansas is higher now than it was before Roe vs. Wade was reversed. In March of 2023, 44% of abortion patients at Planned Parenthood clinics in Kansas traveled more than 250 miles for their services. After the reversal or Roe, Kansas was the first state where voters weighed in on abortion at the ballot box, rejecting a constitutional amendment that could have led to an abortion ban in August 2022. According to President of Great Plains Planned Parenthood Emily Wales, The Pittsburg facility will eventually provide gender-affirming services as well.

The growth in providers situated near state lines has generated new efforts from those opposed to abortion to restrict the practice, calling it "abortion trafficking."  This year, the Kansas Legislature passed bills for statutes that will require abortion providers to ask patients why they are terminating their pregnancies and report the answers to the state, and that will make it a specific crime to coerce someone into having an abortion.