Kansas Loses Fight Against Embattled Abortion Doctor

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1. Here is some background on Dr. Neuhaus for any who might not know her (or seen Rachel Maddow,

who has covered the abortion issues in KS quite extensively.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/16/ann-kristin-neuhaus_n_3756876.html

Ann Kristin Neuhaus has seen better days.

The doctor once ran a medical clinic that provided abortions in Lawrence, Kan., and later worked with the late Dr. George Tiller. Now she says her house, which sits on a desolate stretch of road in rural Kansas, is falling apart.

An underground pipe from the well is so rusted that the basement floods if she doesn’t turn off the water. Health insurance, which covers a lot of the medications for her son’s diabetes, costs about $1,200 a month.

“We live pretty much hand to mouth,” the soft-spoken 55-year-old, who goes by "Kris," told The Huffington Post. “We’re basically in the process of getting bankruptcy paperwork together, but we’re moving slowly on it.”

Neuhaus was stripped of her medical license last summer after the state of Kansas determined that mental health consultations she gave to 11 young women seeking late-term abortions didn’t meet the standard of care. The females were between the ages of 10 and 18.