time. in kansas, a law that requires abortion clinics to meet 36 pages of new requirements to get a license takes effect on friday. health regulators announced today, so far all of the abortion clinics they have visited fail to meet those new requirements. the new regulations requiring, for example, that procedure rooms be 150 square feet and recovery areas be at least 80 square feet per patient were sent to the providers on june 17th days before the inspections. two doctors who perform abortions in kansas filed a federal lawsuit today to block those new regulations, calling them a sham. and in texas yesterday, the legislature approved a bill that would block planned parenthood from receiving state planning money, or from taking part in the medicaid women's health program. if signed, texas would become the largest state to defund