Kansas staffers wrote a brief in the spring when Planned Parenthood announced it was opening a clinic in a small town in southeast Kansas closer to restrictive states. Heather Hollingsworth emailed about media availability at the clinic, and soon joined John Hanna and Erica Hunzinger on a call to discuss how to write a national story on increasing abortion access in a typically right-leaning state.
Hollingsworth and videographer Nick Ingram went down to Pittsburg not long after to tour the new clinic and interview people who live in the town to understand how people felt about the national/statewide debate becoming a very local reality. The two of them ended up collecting complicated and nuanced opinions that were the emotional, people-centered bedrock of the story.
Hanna pulled innumerable stats about Kansas’ statewide abortion vote right after Roe v. Wade was overturned to figure out how people in the county and surrounding areas voted. Charlie Riedel traveled to Pittsburg after the clinic had opened to capture images of a lone protester, the security presence outside of the clinic and images of the town.
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