MADISON, Wis.—Some 1,000 people rally at the state Capitol here April 28 in defense of women’s right to abortion as part of dozens of other actions around the country that day in response to a call from Unite Against the War on Women. Protesters here condemned a recently passed state law imposing criminal penalties on doctors who fail to meet with patients three times after nonsurgical abortions.

—ZENA JASPER

TOPEKA, Kan.—Hundreds rallied at the state Capitol here April 28 to protest bills before the Kansas state legislature that would curb women’s right to abortion and contraception.

Among the proposals is a measure that would ban state employees from performing abortions and legislation that would give greater legal protections to health care providers who refuse to conduct this medical procedure or dispense abortion-inducing drugs, with “abortion-inducing” defined so broadly that it could include birth-control pills.

Among the speakers were participants in a successful fight to restore public funding for contraceptives for low-income women in Miami County, Kansas.

—CHUCK GUERRA