Lawrence Journal-World 11-18-11

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State still wants new license process for abortion By John Hanna Associated Press

TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas officials are still trying to move ahead with a new licensing process for abortion providers amid ongoing legal challenges in state and federal court, and an attorney

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said Thursday that two doctors will be harmed professionally if the state succeeds. The state Department of Health and Environment has been unable to enforce new regulations for hospitals, clinics and doctor’s offices performing five or more elective abor-

tions a month. The rules dictate the equipment, medications and staffing abortion providers must have on hand, set other standards for their buildings and require them to make patients’ medical records available for inspection. Dr. Herbert Hodes and his

daughter, Dr. Traci Nauser, have lawsuits pending in federal and state courts challenging the regulations, and judges have blocked enforcement of the rules. The doctors already have been denied a license to

The licensing law was among several policies enacted this year in Kansas by anti-abortion majorities in the Legislature and Gov. Sam Brownback.

Please see ABORTION, page 2A

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INSIDE Dems: Marriage not way to fight poverty

By Christine Metz cmetz@ljworld.com

Pushing marriage to end poverty is simplistic and potentially dangerous, Kansas Democratic Party Chairwoman Joan Wagnon said Thursday. Her remarks were in response to a speaker at Gov. Sam Brownback’s child poverty summit on Wednesday. Page 3A

Data from the giant statewide report card was released Thursday. Known as the Summary of Vital Statistics, the report tracks information on residents’ births, deaths, marriages and divorces. The data, compiled by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, is from 2010. Here are some of the highlights:

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Eudora Cardinals in state semi-finals

40,439 Number of live births in Kansas.

Football coach Gregg Webb said Eudora High is in the state semifinals for the first time since 2002, when Eudora lost to Fort Scott and he was still the coach at Claflin. The Cardinals take on the Paola Panthers tonight in Eudora in a Class 4A matchup. Page 1B

3.4 percent Decrease in the birth rate from 2009, which was at 14.7 per 1,000, to 2010, which was at 14.2. 1,263 Number of births in Douglas County, which is 27 more births than last year.

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7.5 percent Increase in birth rate from 2009, which was at 10.6 per 1,000, to 2010, which was at 11.4.

My big worry is becoming a burden on my family.”

4,183 Number of abortions performed in Kansas on Kansas residents.

— Betty Mae Gutoski, 85, of Muskegon, Mich., who says she expects to live past 90. The rolls of America’s oldest old are surging: Nearly 2 million now are 90 or over. Page 7A

4,150 Number of abortions performed in Kansas on out-ofstate residents. 4,501 Number of pregnancies in Kansas for mothers under 20.

COMING SATURDAY Kansas University’s football team gears up for road game with Texas A&M.

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INDEX Business Classified Comics Deaths Events listings Horoscope Movies Opinion Poll Puzzles Sports Television Vol.153/No.322

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ELLIE ROBERTSON, LEFT, AND KATIE SPENCER WATCH their stack of cups take a tumble Thursday at Lecompton Elementary. The school’s third- and fourth-graders spent their gym classes stacking and unstacking plastic cups as part of an international effort to establish a new Guinness World Record for Most People Sport Stacking at Multiple Locations in One Day. The event’s goal was to have more than 350,000 people involved.

Lecompton students stack up for world record, education By Mark Fagan mfagan@ljworld.com

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LECOMPTON — The 324 cups separated into 36 stacks lined up at six stations added up to the chance of a lifetime for students Thursday at Lecompton Elementary School.

The payoff: setting a world record, with a little learning on the side. Nearly all of the school’s 184 second-, third- and fourth-graders spent their gym classes stacking and unstacking plastic cups as part of an international effort to establish a new Guinness World Record for — you guessed it — Most People Sport Stack-

ing at Multiple Locations in One Day. The event, organized through the World Sport Stacking Association, aimed to line up more than 350,000 people to stack and unstack sets of 12 cups for at least 30 minutes at some point Thursday, which was Guinness World Records Day. Lecompton was among 82 schools in

Kansas to register. Anyone who might consider stacking cups as little more than, well, stacking cups must not have heard from teacher Jill LarsonBradney. Larson-Bradney, whose students have participated in WSSA Stack Up events for each of the past four

23.1 per 1,000 The pregnancy rate for Kansas teenage girls. It’s the lowest rate in the past 20 years. 70 Number of pregnancies in Douglas County for mothers under 20. 12.6 per 1,000 The pregnancy rate for Douglas County teenage girls. 24,428 Number of deaths in Kansas, which is a 1.8 percent increase from 2009. 627 Number of deaths in Douglas County. 74.1 Average age of death in Kansas.

Please see STACKING, page 2A

Please see STATS, page 2A

Former KU student identified as driver killed in I-70 crash By George Diepenbrock gdiepenbrock@ljworld.com

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Vital stats provide snapshot of Kansas

When Andrew Rodgman found out someone needed help — whether it was a place to stay or just someone to talk to — he seemed to always be there. “If someone needed help and asked him, I never saw him turn somebody down,” said Lawrence resident Brandon Condren, who had been friends with Rodgman

since they were in elementary school together in Hugoton. Now, Condren said, his family and friends are in shock. The Kansas Highway Patrol identified Rodgman, 26, a former Kansas University student, as the man who died in a crash Wednesday afternoon near the Lawrence service center on the Kansas Turnpike about five miles east of Lawrence.

Trooper Paul Alexander said Rodgman was driving his 1999 Subaru Legacy in the eastbound Rodgman lanes when he crossed the median and struck the side of a westbound semitrailer driven by a 45-year-old Carlos Ramos

of Roselle, N.J. Ramos was not injured. However, Rodgman died at the scene, which was just east of the service center before the concrete barrier median wall resumes dividing both directions of travel. Alexander said troopers were still trying to determine the cause of the crash and why Rodgman had made a sudden and hard move to the left from the right eastbound lane before colliding with the

semitrailer in the right westbound lane. “That was one of the places where it didn’t have the wall, and he ended up crossing the median and running into the semi,” said Alexander, who estimated the median was 30 feet to 40 feet wide there. No other injuries were reported in the accident, which occurred about 2 p.m. Rodgman had entered the turnpike Please see FATALITY, page 2A


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