TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas' highest court ruled for the first time Friday that the state constitution protects abortion rights and blocked a first-in-the-nation ban on a common second trimester method for ending pregnancies.
"This right allows a woman to make her own decisions regarding her body, health, family formation, and family life — decisions that can include whether to continue a pregnancy," the court's unsigned majority opinion said. "The liberal, activist Supreme Court showed just how out of touch they are with Kansas values," Senate President Susan Wagle, a conservative Wichita Republican, said in a statement issued minutes after the decision."We understand that life is sacred, beginning at conception, and we must always stand and defend the most vulnerable among us, the unborn."
The decision Friday comes two years after the Kansas court heard arguments from attorneys, an unusually long delay for a ruling. Iowa's Supreme Court issued a similar decision in 2018. The Kansas law at issue would bar physicians from using forceps or similar instruments on a live fetus to remove it from the womb in pieces, using the non-medical term"dismemberment abortion" to describe the procedure. Such instruments are commonly used in dilation and evacuation procedure, which the Center for Reproductive Rights has described as the safest and most common abortion procedure in the U.S. in the second trimester.
Thank you Kansas for standing up and giving women their right to have a say when it comes to abortion. This issue should be decided by women and not men as has happened in the past. Thanks again Kansas maybe other States will follow your example.
Absolutely sickened with this BS of a ruling!! The states justices should be ashamed of themselves•~ Peace Out ~ ✌️
Very sad.
“You shall not murder (Exo 20:13) Lord (Yahweh) hates hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run rapidly to evil, a false witness who utters lies (Prov 6:16-18) Rescue those led away to death; those staggering toward slaughter” (Prov 24:11)
Great but let's not be complacent: Senate President Susan Wagle said, 'Life is sacred'. Sacred? Seriously? Aren't we past religious law? Don't we rail against Sharia?
So tragic that we now brag about abortions. I am pro/choice until 12 weeks. I think birth control is best option.
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The Court remembered this is America.
Hey judges, would you cut the spinal chord on your own newborn grandchildren given the will to accommodate your son or daughter's wishes?
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Democrats: 'Women have the right to choose.' Also Democrats: 'Black Lives Matter.' 🤔
I seriously doubt the Kansas constitution protects womb barbarism
Kansas toe in the water return to sanity?
Good job Kansas
Amen
DerangedDonald couldn’t buy this court huh
Kansas ain’t gonna like that at least the dinos won’t. Rest assured friends that when any of these hard right anti abortion protesters / when their teens get pregnant and they do - the kids seek abortions. Ask Planned Parenthood
Kansas?!
Gotta say I didn't expect this from Kansas, but grateful
Women have the right to choose. I support pro-choice, not anti-choice.