Erin Heger is a freelance writer living in the Kansas City area. Her reporting and essays on maternal mental health, parenting, and health-care policy have been featured in the Atlantic, Refinery29, Ravishly and DAME Magazine.
Despite 82 percent of Kansans supporting KanCare expansion, enough Republican lawmakers stood with Gov. Sam Brownback to continue to deny health care coverage to about 150,000 people.
Pro-choice activists called and emailed Democratic Party delegates prior to the nominating convention, voicing concern with anti-choice candidate Dennis McKinney, regarded as a favorite among the party establishment.
Five Democrats are vying for their party’s nomination to fill the congressional vacancy left by Mike Pompeo, the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency and former GOP representative for the 4th Congressional District. One of them is deeply anti-choice.
