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40 years of Roe v. Wade
The number of abortions performed in America has been on the decline for a generation. Yet in few states has the trend been more dramatic in recent years than in Kansas, a change driven by a series of laws limiting the procedure and by the violent death of the state’s most prominent abortion doctor in 2009. Furman political science professor Glen Halva-Neubauer was quoted in a Kansas City Star article about the 40th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case, Roe v. Wade.