Kansas says the number of abortions performed in Kansas declined 4.4 percent last year and dropped below 7,000 for the first time since 1987.
The state Department of Health and Environment issued a preliminary report Monday saying that 6,974 abortions were reported in Kansas or by its residents in 2015. That's 320 fewer than for 2014.
The totals include reports for several dozen Kansas women having abortions in other states. In both years, nearly half of the reported abortions were for patients who came to Kansas from elsewhere, mainly Missouri.
Kansas has tightened abortion restrictions in recent years and last year banned a common second-trimester procedure.
But a lawsuit has kept the ban on hold, so Kansas saw only a small decline in the affected method, to 629 last year.
